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

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We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

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A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character.

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Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

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This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.

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

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To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

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Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

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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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Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

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The brain is wider than the sky.

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I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

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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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Gratefully accepting the proffered honor, [to inscribe a new legal work to him] I give the leave, begging only that the inscription may be in modest terms, not representing me as a man of great learning, or a very extraordinary one in any respect.

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

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Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

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The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death.

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