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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

— Aldous Huxley

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

— Dorothea Dix

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

— Edwin Louis Cole

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.

— Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

— George Bernard Shaw

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

— Zhuangzi

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

I am not learned, but I have as good feelings as any man.

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

— Aristotle

✗Opposing Perspectives

Men know everything - all of them - all the time - no matter how stupid or inexperienced or arrogant or ignorant they are.

— Andrea Dworkin

Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.

— Claude Bernard