Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.
Interpretation
The pursuit of knowledge requires effort and perseverance through challenges.
This quote emphasizes the importance of actively seeking knowledge and the willingness to endure difficulties in the process. It suggests that understanding and wisdom are not simply granted but must be earned through rigorous inquiry and perseverance, and those who shy away from the challenges of seeking knowledge should not expect to gain its rewards.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a classroom to inspire students to embrace challenges in their learning.
We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.
Sometimes, success in life is knowing one's limitations.
Mine Enemy is growing old -- I have at last Revenge -- The Palate of the Hate departs -- If any would avenge Let him be quick -- the Viand flits -- It is a faded Meat -- Anger as soon as fed is dead -- 'Tis starving makes it fat
Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to learn how to build a civilization.
Lyra learns to her great cost that fantasy isn’t enough. She has been lying all her life, telling stories to people, making up fantasies, and suddenly she comes to a point where that’s not enough. All she can do is tell the truth. She tells the truth about her childhood, about the experiences she had in Oxford, and that is what saves her. True experience, not fantasy - reality, not lies - is what saves us in the end.
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