“Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers’, but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.” EducationYouthHumility Book:The Last of the Mohicans Source: The Last of the Mohicans
“Very few men attain enough of human knowledge to be fully aware how much remains to be learned, and of that which they never can hope to acquire.” KnowledgeHumility Book:The Sea Lions Or The Lost Sealers Source: The Sea Lions Or The Lost Sealers