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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.


Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that. - Benjamin Franklin.


I would fain grow old learning many things. - Plato.


Learning is to the studious, and riches to the careful, as well as power to the bold, and Heaven to the virtuous. - Benjamin Franklin.


No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government. – Socrates.


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


We cannot learn without pain. – Aristotle.


We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection. - Plato.


Wise men learn by others’ harms, fools scarcely by their own. - Benjamin Franklin.


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