It Is Not Knowledge, But The Act

You Know That I Write Slowly. This Is Chiefly Because I Am Never Satisfied Until I Have Said As Much As Possible In A Few Words, And Writing Briefly Takes Far More Time Than Writing At Length.

In My Opinion Instruction Is Very Purposeless For Such Individuals Who Do No Want Merely To Collect A Mass Of Knowledge, But Are Mainly Interested In Exercising (training) Their Own Powers. One Doesn't Need To Grasp Such A One By The Hand And Lead Him To The Goal, But Only From Time To Time Give Him Suggestions, In Order That He May Reach It Himself In The Shortest Way.

It Is Not Knowledge, But The Act Of Learning, Not Possession But The Act Of Getting There, Which Grants The Greatest Enjoyment. When I Have Clarified And Exhausted A Subject, Then I Turn Away From It, In Order To Go Into Darkness Again; The Never-satisfied Man Is So Strange If He Has Completed A Structure, Then It Is Not In Order To Dwell In It Peacefully,but In Order To Begin Another. I Imagine The World Conqueror Must Feel Thus, Who, After One Kingdom Is Scarcely Conquered, Stretches Out His Arms For Others.

Arc, Amplitude, And Curvature Sustain A Similar Relation To Each Other As Time, Motion, And Velocity, Or As Volume, Mass, And Density.

To Such Idle Talk It Might Further Be Added: That Whenever A Certain Exclusive Occupation Is Coupled With Specific Shortcomings, It Is Likewise Almost Certainly Divorced From Certain Other Shortcomings.