My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. – Arthur Conan Doyle
I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built up on the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. – Anne Sullivan
I think my type of personality has all music inside of it, so I am full of music, without even knowing it, without even learning it, without even hearing it. – Ziggy Marley
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.