#earn

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal. ↗

— Plato

#being #cleverness #entire #evil #extreme

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. ↗

— Plato

#ignorant #knowledge #learning #little #most

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune. ↗

— Plato

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I had learned something of Miami from people who had visited there, so I knew what to expect. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

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My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#architecture #arising #arts #formed #help

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. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

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Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. ↗

— Channing Pollock

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It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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