No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.

The scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge

Shallow books make shallow men.)

Learning requires curiosity, exploration, evaluation, and dialogue. To be granted the product of knowledge without this process would violate what it means to be a creature.

For the first time, I felt my mind being stretched — and I loved it. I realized that thinking could be fun, and with that simple realization I was sent headlong into the lifelong discipline of reading. I

A journalist, it is said, enjoys a license to be educated in public; we are the lucky ones, allowed to spend our days in a continuing course of adult education.

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.

As long as we think we know everything, we do not know anything.

person will get out of the word what he is willing to put into it.

Books are not men—

So what does this mean for a church trying to reach out to an internet-based generation? Here are some internet browsing statistics that may cause you to rethink everything: average length watched of a single internet video: 2.7 minutes percent of page views that last less than 4 seconds: 17 percent of page views that last more than 10 minutes: 4 percent of words read on web pages with 111 words or less: 49 percent of words read on an average (593 words) web page: 286.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.