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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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There is only one way to learn... It's through action.

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

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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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Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn.

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Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

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I once heard a learned man say, "Every evil has its remedy, except folly. To reprimand an obstinate fool or to preach to a dolt is like writing upon the water. Christ healed the blind, the halt, the palsied, and the leprous. But the fool He could not cure."

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As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.

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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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Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.

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Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.

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

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

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

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

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

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Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.

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