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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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I wonder what especial sanctity attaches itself to fifteen minutes. It is always the maximum and the minimum of time which will enable us to acquire languages, etiquette, personality, oratory ... One gathers that twelve minutes a day would be hopelessly inadequate, and twenty minutes a wasteful and ridiculous excess.

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To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art.

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The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing.

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The final mystery is oneself.

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Everybody is now so busy teaching that nobody has any time to learn.

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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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A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.

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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?

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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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The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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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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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

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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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Excellence is the new forever.

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In the particular is contained the universal.

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