The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward. John Knowles More Quotes by John Knowles More Quotes From John Knowles There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream. John Knowles target harm dream I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me. John Knowles would-be meaningful world It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart John Knowles stupidity heart war As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak. John Knowles sarcasm sarcastic summer We are all born equally far from the sun. John Knowles born sun What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love. John Knowles love-you winter mean Peace is indivisible, and the surrounding world confusion found no reflection inside me. John Knowles confusion reflection world You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment. John Knowles running long thinking But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth. John Knowles separate-peace levels feelings This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way. John Knowles men peace years Life is fighting. In life, it's the look ahead that counts. We are all born equally far from the sun. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love. John Knowles fighting land bridges I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk. John Knowles sleep morning night Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. John Knowles separate-peace moments Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it. John Knowles important mean years I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it. John Knowles knows There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding John Knowles understanding acceptance people Everything has to evolve or else it perishes. John Knowles evolve It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams. John Knowles regret dream looks Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God. John Knowles prayer might night Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves. John Knowles teenager accepting today
