Other related topics at:
Knowledge/Learning
4. Consultation of others; Independent
Study/Efforts
"The reason why the authors, which are yet read, of the sixteenth
century, are so little understood, is, that they are read alone;
and no help is borrowed from those who lived with them, or before
them."
Boswell: Life
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51. Independent Study/Efforts;
Writing
"Human experience, which is constantly contradicting theory, is
the great test of truth. A system, built upon the discoveries of
a great many minds, is always of more strength, than what is
produced by the mere workings of any one mind, which, of itself,
can do very little. There is not so poor a book in the world
that would not be a prodigious effort were it wrought out
entirely by a single mind, without the aid of prior
investigators."
Boswell: Life
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