Often the treasures of learning must be defended, not against the simple but, rather, against other learned men.
Learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.
In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes on.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
I do not know the limits, within which the freedom of my philosophical teaching would be confined, if I am to avoid all appearance of disturbing the publicly established religion.
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.
But really, the term “forgive and forget” doesn’t make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn’t always healthy. But if we forget, we don’t learn from our mistakes. And that can be deadly.
You’ll learn it all soon enough… You will see everything without being seen. You will hear everything but pretend that you haven’t…You will walk for ten hours a day but feel like you haven’t walked at all.
You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.
You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
