Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
quote by Albert J. Nock
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Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
quote by Albert J. Nock
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Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Experts
Experts who trust the way of life,
Who love the learning, are precious.
Experts can not live like us
If they are separate.
Learn the expertise that is real,
And be diligent in the role of study.
poem by Naveed Akram
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The Higher Wisdom
Wisdom carried new meaning, a wonderful weapon,
To be used by the diligent and troubled.
Wiser men see a page of writing and speak,
Causing us to be delighted by their speech.
Reacting is like acting, fully able to talk,
The learning itself is superior to a lie.
My lies are absent, fondness is attached
For this makes imposition a defeat.
poem by Naveed Akram
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Who is quick in youth will be diligent in old age.
A diligent man ever finds that something remains to be done.
Who is generous is lazy, who is angry is diligent.
I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.
quote by Koichi Tanaka
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a mortal
who feels immortality
is a diligent fool
quote by by John Celes
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For the diligent, a week has seven days; for the slothful, seven tomorrows.
A View
I look down and see small ants
so busy and so diligent
Strange that when I look again
they could be tiny little men.
poem by Ruth Walters
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Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.
The diligent scholar is he that loves himself, and desires to have reason to applaud and love himself.
quote by William Godwin
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A good harvest does not grow with ease; the more diligent the farmer, the more bountiful the crop.
The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.