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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which read more
The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
To the devil with those who published before us.
[Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]
To the devil with those who published before us.
[Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.]
It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.
[Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]
It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt.
[Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn read more
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]
Learning is a kind of natural food for the mind.
[Lat., Doctrina est ingenii naturale quoddam pabulum.]
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am read more
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;
For he, by geometric scale,
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In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;
For he, by geometric scale,
Could take the size of pots of ale.
