Maximus

There's often a lot of chaos in the world,
and the passion for knowledge is always at the bottom of it.

For all men strive to grasp what they don't yet know,
while none strive to grasp what they already know.

Chuang-tzu, The Wisdom of Laotse
via http://stoicnews.blogspot.com/

How To Grasp What You Know

It's not easy for a person to aquire
a stable point of view,
unless, day after day,
he says the same ideas,
and hears the same ideas
and applies the same ideas
to his everyday life.

Epictetus (Fragments 16)
http://www.paed.uni-muenchen.de/~kraiker/EPIKTET.HTM

The Love Of Knowledge

You can read book after book
And never master what you've learned
Unless you take the time to study it again.

Everyone has a hunger for the new
But we only learn when we make it old.