A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

George Iles

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Some young folks have wind-fall minds, prematurely detached from the tree of knowledge for a life-long sourness and pettiness.

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When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

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Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

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Truth is better disengaged from error than torn from it.

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When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

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Degree is much: the whole Atlantic might be lukewarm and never boil us a potato.

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Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.