“No man is the wiser for his learning.”
John Selden (1584–1654) English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution, and of Jewish law
Learning.
Table Talk (1689)
“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”
— Kurt Vonnegut, book Cat's Cradle
Chapter 124 http://books.google.com/books?id=61W3aGvTVgIC&q=%22Beware+of+the+man+who+works+hard+to+learn+something+learns+it+and+finds+himself+no+wiser+than+before%22&pg=PA281#v=onepage: Frank's Ant Farm <br class="br">Cat's Cradle (1963)
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