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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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Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

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I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.

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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

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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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For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

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People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

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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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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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Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died.

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Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

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In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th’ ignorant More learned than the ears.

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Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

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We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

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

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Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.

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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.

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

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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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