#lon

A lonely person on a college campus is never more than a few minutes and a bad decision from company. ↗

— Thomm Quackenbush

#college #lonely #dreams

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#colonizer #danger #fear #folly #humanity

The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#education #life #lifelong-learning #lyrics #education

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. ↗

— Henry Ford

#lifelong-learning #education

You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love. ↗

— Julia Child

#lifelong-learning #love #education

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#learning #loneliness #school #education

All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher. ↗

— George Whitman

#self-education #education

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school. ↗

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

#lifelong-learning #education

Loneliness is a good education. You learn the things no crowds can teach and you discover the things no crowds can give. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#education

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#life #loneliness #qotd #sense-of-wonder #universe