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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past. And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence. Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. ... It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.

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In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am.

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The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it.

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The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

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To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

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There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know.

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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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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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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

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He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

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A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

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You've always had the power right there in your shoes, you just had to learn it for yourself.

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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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Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

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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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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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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.

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

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