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• Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads.
• Men only learned to walk upright cause they put beer on the top shelf!
• The depth of knowledge to be gained from books is much richer and broader than what can be learned from direct experience.
• What men really want is not knowledge but certainty. -- Bertrand Russell
• Self knowledge is best learned, not by contemplation, but action.
  Strive to do your duty and you will soon discover of what stuff you are made. -- Goethe...
• The preeminence of a learned man over a worshiper is equal to the preeminence of the moon, at the night of the full moon, over all the stars.
  Verily, the learned men are the heirs of the Prophets. -- A tradition attributed to Muhammad...
• I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
  Igor Stravinsky...