“Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
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Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“Sometimes you can know things. Things about yourself. Things from before you can remember.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
Source: Seven Great Statesmen in the Warfare of Humanity with Unreason (1915), p. 59
Context: He [Grotius] avoided another danger as serious as his precocity had been. He steered clear of the quicksands of useless scholarship, which had engulfed so many strong men of his time. The zeal of learned men in that period was largely given to knowing things not worth knowing, to discussing things not worth discussing, to proving things not worth proving. Grotius seemed plunging on, with all sails set, into these quicksands; but again his good sense and sober judgment saved him: he decided to bring himself into the current of active life flowing through his land and time, and with this purpose he gave himself to the broad and thorough study of jurisprudence.
“Well, like they say, nothing can set a precedent until it happens for the first time.”
Source: Timescoop (1969), Chapter 19 (p. 122)