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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

  • Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

  • Our lives pass from us like the wind, and why Should wise men grieve to know that they must die? The Judas blossom fades, the lovely face Of light is dimmed, and darkness takes its place.

  • Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise, He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay, Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.

  • There are men that teach best by not teaching at all.

  • Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.

  • Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

  • I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.

  • Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

  • Information is not knowledge.

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