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Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

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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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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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The book written against fame and learning has the author's name on the title-page.

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Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

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A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.

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Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

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Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a would-be rational learning process.

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[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be found.

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Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

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Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.

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Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

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There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

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

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Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

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Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

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An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

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In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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