Macie S

“Gaining true knowledge, as opposed to gaining information, is done experientially.”
― A.J. Aaron, Reluctant Gods

“Before you can connect dots, you need to have dots to connect. The more material you’re exposed to in the world, the more grist you’ll have for your imagination mill.”
― Sean Patrick, Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century

“I have seen the fruits of adult education. It can be done. And anyone who has worked in adult education knows that he must appeal for self-help. There are no monitors to keep adults at the task. There are no examinations and grades, none of the machinery of external discipline. The person who learns something out of school is self-disciplined. He works for merit in his own eyes, not credit from the registrar. (1940 ed. page 104)”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“His academic failure forced him to develop unconventionally, free of the social straightjacket that might have constrained his progress to well-worn paths.”
― Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan