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

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Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

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

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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

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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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Any noun can be verbed.

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I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

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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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Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.

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All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

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Optimization hinders evolution.

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

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He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understands himself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

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It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies.

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Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.

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O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.

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