Quote by Jeremy Taylor
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. - Jeremy Taylor

To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance. – Jeremy Taylor

Other quotes by Jeremy Taylor

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not. – Jeremy Taylor

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Knowledge
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When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying. – Jeremy Taylor

Category:
Trust
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God hath prepared a little coronet or special reward (extraordinary and beside the great crown of all faithful souls) for those who have not defiled themselves with women. – Jeremy Taylor

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Chastity
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Other Quotes from
Learning
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In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. – Gregory Bateson

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Learning

Particularly for English people, Shakespeare is always at the forefront of both drama and the English language. Hes always been there. I cant remember starting school and not learning about him. – Jamie Campbell Bower

Category:
Learning

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick – it seems like a decent skill to have. – Sarah Wayne Callies

Category:
Learning

Before, it was just about making the films – and now its releasing them. Which is a steep learning curve. – Jessica Chastain

Category:
Learning

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We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. – Charles Horton Cooley

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All war is based on deception. – Sun Tzu

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War

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and whats it all about. – David Attenborough

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Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. – Seamus Heaney

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