“…This is a hideous thing. None of us will ever be the same.”
John Updike book Rabbit at Rest
"We never are," he dares to say.
Rabbit at Rest (1990)
“None of the things they learn, should ever be”
Sec. 73
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)
Context: None of the things they learn, should ever be made a burthen to them, or impos's on them as a task. Whatever is so proposed, presently becomes irksome; the mind takes an aversion to it, though before it were a thing of delight or indifferency. Let a child but be ordered to whip his top at a certain time every day, whether he has or has not a mind to it; let this be but requir'd of him as a duty, wherein he must spend so many hours morning and afternoon, and see whether he will not soon be weary of any play at this rate. Is it not so with grown men?
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“I grow old ever learning many things.”
Solón (-638–-558 BC) Athenian legislator
Plutarch, Solon, ch. 31; translation by Bernadotte Perrin. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Sol.+31.1 <br class="br">Variant translation: As I grow older, I constantly learn more.
Bernard Cornwell (1944) British writer
Lieutenant Richard Sharpe, p. 130
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Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
On his short story A Clean, Well-Lighted Place. Pt. 2, Ch. 9
Papa Hemingway (1966)
“The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”
Baz Luhrmann (1962) Australian film director, screenwriter and producer
Source: Moulin Rouge!: The Splendid Book That Charts the Journey of Baz Luhrmann's Motion Picture
“The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return.”
Eden ahbez (1908–1995) American songwriter and recording artist
"Nature Boy" (1948)
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved, just to love and be loved.
His assertion to Joe Romersa, of how his lyrics should be corrected, saying that "To be loved in return, is too much of a deal, and that has nothing to do with love."
Context: While we spoke of many things
Fools and kings
This he said to me:
"The greatest thing you'll ever learn
Is just to love and be loved in return."
“If they live in the world, they should see and touch and hear and learn things.”
Philip Pullman His Dark Materials trilogy
Source: His Dark Materials, The Amber Spyglass (2000), Ch. 23 : No Way Out
“I learned have, not to despise,
What ever thing seemes small in common eyes.”
Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) English poet
Visions of the Worlds Vanitie (1591), line 69
“True instruction is this: —to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does.”
Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Context: True instruction is this: —to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now He has disposed that there should be summer and winter, and plenty and dearth, and vice and virtue, and all such opposites, for the harmony of the whole. (26).