I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand, I teach in order to learn.

Author: Robert Frost

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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

We love the things we love for what they are.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.