The-broken-empire Quote by Mark Lawrence

“Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age…

— Plato

“It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough.”

— Stephen King

“My mind is so busy thinking about values that I don't have time to experience them.”

— Aldous Huxley

“I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and…

— Peter Hessler

“And you? What brings you here? I shrugged my shoulders. No idea? Hm, you’re still young. Eighteen? I froze. Nineteen? Twenty? Incredible, so young.…

— Anonymous

“It is good," he thought, "to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lust for the world and…

— Hermann Hesse

“At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.”

— Mark Jenkins

“I always thought it would get easier to be a person as I aged. But it just gets more and more complicated.”

— Jim Butcher

“Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.”

— Robin Hobb

“Wise man’s mind is always very clear. When asked anything, he gives the answer directly almost without any thinking!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“I wonder if it's harder to be good in this age?”

— Iris Murdoch

“To his surprise he...discovered that it was possible to be good at what you had little interest in, just as it had been possible…

— Richard Russo