J. M.

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”
― William Godwin

“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”
― Jean Piaget

“The cultivation of those sciences which have enlarged the limits of the empire of man over the external world, has, for want of poetical faculty, proportionally circumscribed those of the internal world; and man, having enslaved the elements, remains himself a slave.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It