A great book can transmit years of wisdom in a few afternoons.
Each sentence conveys meaning with precision and economy.
A great book is a patient teacher and a deathless companion.
A man with a good library has a thousand good mentors.
People are interesting if you allow them to be.
A routine social interaction is only a couple good questions away from something deeply involving.
People reveal their complexity when you give them your full attention.
Your interest gives them permission to be interesting.
You can “get a good education” by giving it to yourself.
Education is something you do, not something that passively happens to you.
Elite colleges sell a brand name and a networking opportunity.
The knowledge itself is in the library and in the device you’re reading this on.
The value of reading is now as much about the capacity to focus as the content of the book.
Regular reading is a practice that directs our focus towards something specific.
It is a counterpoint to a culture of increasingly fractured attention and compulsive pseudo-multitasking.