East of eden Quote by John Steinbeck

“Young men most needed experience. They could not play well if they trusted to a general rule. Every card had a relative value. Principles…

— Henry Adams

“learned rapidly because his first training was in how to leam. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could…

— Frank Herbert

“As a boy, he had dreamed of taking a man's place among men; and, as a boy, had deemed himself well fit to do…

— Lloyd Alexander

“He had, for a few days, forgotten that wherever he traveled, he must take his own familiar self along, and that that self would…

— Sinclair Lewis

A man had to learn, it was his nature.

— Bernard Malamud

“And if he were really to do good he would have needed in addition to his principles, a heart capable of violating them -…

— Boris Pasternak

“veryone is capable of learning; the trick is knowing what you need to learn.”

— Donna Snyder-Smith

In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet…

— Mark Twain

“...No one teaches well unless he has first learned well; no one learns well unless he learns in order to teach. And both learning…

— Herman Witsius

“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.”

— Abigail Adams

“The man saw no adventure, no challenge, no conquest, no sweat, and no sense of accomplishment in what we were about to do –…

— Barbara Savage