Love Can Be Unselfish, In The Sense

Education Is The Sum Total Of One's Experience, And The Purpose Of Higher Education Is To Widen Our Experiences Beyond The Circumscribed Existence Or Our Own Daily Lives.

The Truly Great Books Are The Few Books That Are Over Everybody's Head All Of The Time.

There Is A Strange Fact About The Human Mind, A Fact That Differentiates The Mind Sharply From The Body. The Body Is Limited In Ways That The Mind Is Not. One Sign Of This Is That The Body Does Not Continue Indefinitely To Grow In Strength And Develop In Skill And Grace. By The Time Most People Are Thirty Years Old, Their Bodies Are As Good As They Will Ever Be; In Fact, Many Persons' Bodies Have Begun To Deteriorate By That Time. But There Is No Limit To The Amount Of Growth And Development That The Mind Can Sustain. The Mind Does Not Stop Growing At Any Particular Age.

A Good Book Can Teach You About The World And About Yourself. You Learn More Than How To Read Better; You Also Learn More About Life. You Become Wiser.

If A Book Is Easy And Fits Nicely Into All Your Language Conventions And Thought Forms, Then You Probably Will Not Grow Much From Reading It. It May Be Entertaining, But Not Enlarging To Your Understanding. It’s The Hard Books That Count. Raking Is Easy, But All You Get Is Leaves; Digging Is Hard, But You Might Find Diamonds.