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Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

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Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

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The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head, With his own tongue still edifies his ears, And always list'ning to himself appears. All books he reads, and all he reads assails.

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PHILISTINE, n. One whose mind is the creature of its environment, following the fashion in thought, feeling and sentiment. He is sometimes learned, frequently prosperous, commonly clean and always solemn.

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If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

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Any noun can be verbed.

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We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together...

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All learning is derived from things previously known.

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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it was as abstract as Algebra. ... We may say that the great Greek ideal was to have no use for useful things. The Slave was he who learned useful things; the Freeman was he who learned useless things. This still remains the ideal of many noble men of science, in the sense they do desire truth as the great Greeks desired it; and their attitude is an external protest against vulgarity of utilitarianism.

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Learning -the kind of ignorance affected by (and affecting) civilized races, as distinguished from ignorance, the sort of learning incurred by savages. See nonsense.

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Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

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Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

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Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

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We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

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The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

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He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

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You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.

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A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

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