Status Updates From The Walking Drum

“...he is brave, indeed, who fears but does what must be done despite it.”

"...first define the problem, for a problem clearly defined is already half solved..."

"For the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.”

“My ignorance was enormous. Beside it my knowledge was nothing. My hunger for learning, not so much to improve my lot as to understand my world, had led me to study and to thought. Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.”

“I seek to be seeking, as I learn to be learning. Each book is an adventure as is each day’s horizon.”