"That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes."

Marcus Fabius Quintilian, Roman Philosopher

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"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

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"In worthy teaching, all things are related."

Confucius, Chinese Philosopher

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"It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Read in oreder to live."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"A sage is a good teacher, but an even greater learner."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

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"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."

Alexander Pope, English Poet

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"Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

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"For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor."

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"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

"In worthy teaching, all things are related."

"It isn't the sort of thing you ask questions about, because the answers are not usually answers you want to know."

"Read in oreder to live."

"Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it."

"A sage is a good teacher, but an even greater learner."

"Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone."

"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."

"Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them."

"Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss."

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"For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor."

"The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression."

"Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues."

"In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept."

"The perfection of art is to conceal art."

"We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty."

"A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue."

"We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide."

"He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity."

"Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune."