One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Man knows much more than he understands.
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
Man is remembered by his deeds.
A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.
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