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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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Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.

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

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

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R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".

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Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.

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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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Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

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. . . learn to value what is important today in the subtle realm rather than what appears desirable tomorrow in the worldly realm.

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

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

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

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Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn.

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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.

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Study as if you have not reached your goal - hold it as if you were afraid of losing what you have.

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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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Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

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Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow.

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