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“I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is â€� and I can say this honestly â€� that I love learning and a solitary life.”
― Christine de Pizan, The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan

“...he had also acquired a peculiar academic quirk. During exams, he knew all the answers but wasn’t able to successfully map his answers to the right questions. So as soon as an exam started, he simply started putting his answers in the order in which he remembered them. Every time he moved to a new class, his parents made the new teachers aware of this snag. The teachers acknowledged it and reassured the parents that they’d match his answers against the appropriate questions.”
― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy

“he felt a glow of pleasure at the idea that here he would be too far out for the tidal wave of Parisian life to reach him, and yet near enough for the proximity of the capital to strengthen him in his solitude.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

“The curious seeks knowledge out of anxiety and fear; the studious seeks knowledge from a place of love.”
― Alex Sosler, Learning to Love: Christian Higher Education as Pilgrimage

“I like saying ‘intellectualâ€� and ‘philosophicalâ€� things.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“It was easy for me to start good habits like taking advanced classes and doing more sports, but weeding out the bad habits was not as simple. I still went to class high sometimes, but at least I wasn’t doing it every day. Before, I could not function without drugs, could not live a single day. Now, very gradually, I was changing the purpose for which I lived. Before, I was a druggie. Now I was a super studious, highly advanced student who was only on drugs sometimes.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose