"To teach is to learn twice over."

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“All these philosophers are no more than surgeons.”

“Fortunately, when he lacks reason he also lacks words.”

“In such times, if you want neither to lie nor to wound, you are reduced to being silent.”

“Stars more beautiful to the eyes than the telescope that robs them of their illusions.”

“The punishment of those who have loved women too much is to love them forever.”

“Of what must be said and what must not be said. The importance of knowing.”

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"Most gulls don’t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight — how to get from shore to food and back again."

— Richard Bach

Literature1936

#knowledge

"To teach pride in knowledge is to put up an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bounds imposed by one's own ignorance."

— G. Spencer-Brown

Mathematics1923–2016

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"That summer I was nominated to go to the Team Birkie ski camp for the best high school cross-country skiers in the state. … The camp served vegetable lasagna, all kinds of salads, and freshly baked wh…"

— Scott Jurek

Music1973

#knowledge

"Every lawyer of experience comes to know that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around."

— Jerome Frank

Law1889–1957

#knowledge