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Learning Quotes by Ezra Pound
- Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some…
- The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull…
- Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
- The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
- We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book…
- Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
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- Sometimes I push too far, and say the worst possible things... But why would I want to be hurt again? trust is… — Unknown Author
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. — Fred Astaire
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius