Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. Jul 09, 2024 - Fabian Biese>