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In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped.

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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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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

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Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

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The ancestor of every action is a thought.

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The faculty for remembering is not diminished in proportion to what one has learnt, just as little as the number of moulds in which you cast sand lessens its capacity for being cast in new moulds.

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Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

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Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of Science by the tail. Index-learning is a term used to mock pretenders who acquire superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes.

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It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

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

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Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

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There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

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The last few decades have been marked by a special cultivation of the romance of the future. We seem to have made up our minds to misunderstand what has happened; and we turn, with a sort of relief, to stating what will happen-which is apparently much easier...The modern mind is forced towards the future by a certain sense of fatigue, not unmixed with terror, with which it regards the past.

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Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.

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Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.

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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

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Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

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Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

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Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

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