"Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom."
"For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught."
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Source: Memorable Quotations: Philosophers of Western Civilization. Book by Carol A. Dingle, p. 21, 2000.
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