The least of learning is done in the classrooms.

—Thomas Merton

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About Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968), religious name M. Louis, was an American Trappist monk, Catholic priest, theologian, mystic, poet, and writer. He was a professed member of the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, near Bardstown, Kentucky, living there from 1941 to his death.

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Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

—Thomas Merton

Love is all fire; and so heaven and hell are the same place.

—Thomas Merton

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God [is] hidden within me. I find Him by hiding in the silence in which He is concealed.

—Thomas Merton

The silence of the forest is my bride and the sweet dark warmth of the whole world is my love, and out of the heart of that dark warmth comes the secret that is heard only in silence, but it is the root of all the secrets that are whispered by all the lovers in their beds all over the world.

—Thomas Merton

Teenagers have no monopoly on [adolescent behavior], except insofar as we are in fact a teenage society—a society that likes to play "chicken" not with fast cars, but with ballistic missiles.

—Thomas Merton

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The home is the chief school of human virtues.

—William Ellery Channing

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As a child, I lived with being punier than other boys in class. The only consolation was my parents' empathy—they encouraged constant trips to the local drugstore for chocolate milk shakes to fatten me up. The shakes made me happy, but still, all through grammar school, other kids shoved me around.

—James D. Watson

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Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.

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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

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During my second year of nursing school, our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.

—Joann C. Jones

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