My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

About This Quote

Mentally, it is important to learn as much as you can about the world around you. No matter what, you should always be learning something new. It’s okay to learn things that are not useful for your career or goals. The world is full of useful and useless knowledge.

There is no use in trying to fit every piece of information into a plan or equation, we can never know everything we need to know. Learning something new every day, every hour, every minute makes us better people.

Source: Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus

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