Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. – Henry David Thoreau

Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe. – Alfred North Whitehead, address delivered to the Training College Association of

I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible. – Manfred von Richthofen