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"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing."
~Maria Mitchell
This quote isn't particularly bookish, but I read it the other day and it really stood out to me. I suppose it relates to reading in that reading is usually how I feed the "hunger of the mind", and it is never satiated. The more I read, the more I want to read. The more I learn about something, the more I want to learn about something. And so on, and so on, and so on. Ever been there?
October 14, 2010 at 11:24 AM
That's so true. There's a passage in "The Sword in the Stone" which is about learning being the only thing that can cure most things - lonliness, sadness, over-excitability etc., and how learning can be the answer to most questions.
Good quote :)