Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
Men must know their limitations.
Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty.
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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.