Theodore had an apparently inexhaustible fund of knowledge about everything, but he imparted this knowledge with a sort of meticulous diffidence that made you feel he was not so much teaching you something new, as reminding you of something which you were already aware of, but which had, for some reason or other, slipped your mind. Gerald Durrell
Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
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Alan Moore
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Will Durant
I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better...
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Henry Rollins
How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other...
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Ernest Hemingway
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
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Socrates
More Quotes By Gerald Durrell
If naturalists go to heaven (about which there is considerable ecclesiastical doubt), I hope that I will be furnished with a troop of kakapo to amuse me in the evening instead of television.
It's all your fault, Mother, ' said Larry austerely; 'you shouldn't have brought us up to be so selfish.' 'I like that! ' exclaimed Mother. 'I never did anything of the sort! ' 'Well, we didn't get as selfish as this without some guidance, '...
My childhood in Corfu shaped my life. If I had the craft of Merlin, I would give every child the gift of my childhood.
Gradually the magic of the island [Corfu] settled over us as gently and clingingly as pollen.
We all travelled light, taking with us only what we considered to be the bare essentials of life. When we opened our luggage for Customs inspection, the contents of our bags were a fair indication of character and interests. Thus Margo’s luggage contained a multitude...
