Quote of Desiderius Erasmus - You must acquire the best knowledge...
Biography - Desiderius Erasmus:
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus was a Dutch philosopher and Christian scholar (*Approximate years of birth and death).
Born: 1467 - Died: 1536
Period:
16th century
15th century
Place of birth: Netherlands
Born: 1467 - Died: 1536
Period:
16th century
15th century
Place of birth: Netherlands
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
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Quotes for: to learn
What experience and history teach is this — that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it.
I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
Quotes for: knowledge
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
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