The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting

...it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.