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"Much learning does not teach understanding."
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"The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows."
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"This philosophy teaches us to leave safe harbor for the rough seas of real-world experience, and to accept that a rough copy out in the world serves us far greater than a masterpiece sitting quietly on our shelves."
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"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?"
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"Reflection and learning are lifelong processes..."
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"In fact, mistakes are life's way of teaching us the right way to do things."
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"You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does."
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"He was a quick fellow, and when hot from play, would toss himself in a corner, and in five minutes be deep in any sort of book that he could lay his hands on: if it were Rasselas or Gulliver, so much the better, but Bailey's Dictionary would do, or the Bible with the Apocrypha in it. Something he must read, when he was not riding the pony, or running and hunting, or listening to the talk of men. All this was true of him at ten years of age; he had then read through Chrysal, or the Adventures of a Guinea, which was neither milk for babes, nor any chalky mixture meant to pass for milk, and it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid."
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"Your ability to learn from the experiences of other successful people is one of your most important habits that will give you the best chance of success."
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"Everything I know, I learned from dogs."
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"To err is human. To count other people's errors is humane."
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"Bigotry is the sacred disease."
Prejudice
"There is nothing permanent except change."
Change
"To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do."
Control
"A man's character is his fate."
Character
"Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it."
Ignorance
"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."
Man
"To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just."
God
"I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets."
Literature
"Big results require big ambitions."
Ambition
"God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger."
War
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