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To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume One, Chapter 17In context
- Education
- Philosophy
But those that understood him smil’d at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act I, Scene II, spoken by CascaIn context
- Talking
I’ll burn my books!
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by FaustusIn context
- Reading
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burned is Apollo’s laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learned man.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by ChorusIn context
- Life & Death
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star’d at the Pacific⁠—and all his men
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise⁠—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
John Keats1795–1821On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (1816)In context
- Reading
Let Observation with extensive View,
Survey Mankind, from China to Peru
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)In context
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 3In context
- Thinking
I’ve studied now Philosophy
And Jurisprudence, Medicine,⁠—
And even, alas! Theology,⁠—
From end to end, with labor keen;
And here, poor fool! with all my lore
I stand, no wiser than before:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene I, spoken by FaustIn context
- Wisdom
For just where fails the comprehension,
A word steps promptly in as deputy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene IV, spoken by MephistophelesIn context
- Talking
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu544–496 BCThe Art of War (5th century BC), Chapter IIIIn context
- Enemies
- War & Peace
Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter XIn context
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Remarkable Incident of Dr. LanyonIn context
A little Learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope1688–1744An Essay on Criticism (1711)In context
- Education
In nature’s infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act I, Scene II, spoken by SoothsayerIn context
- Nature
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930A Study in Scarlet (1887), Part I, Chapter IIIn context