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• It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will… — Elbert Hubbard
• His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all… — Nikola Tesla
• The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book… — George William Curtis
• Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills,… — Eric Hoffer
• Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance. — Ambrose Bierce
• Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning. — Brian Reynolds
• My early book learning came to me as naturally as the seasons in … the little town in which I grew up.… — Richard McKenna
• To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple… — Harry Callahan
• The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning. — Ezra Pound
• The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. — Idries Shah
• I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires… — Yi-Fu Tuan
• The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding… — Dusty Baker

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