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The shortest and the surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount to first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
The shortest and the surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount to first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
Approximate author period: c. 1714 AD · early modern
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- Viscount Bolingbroke
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- Approximate author period: c. 1714 AD · early modern
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 144 · printed citation: Bolingbroke · subject: Knowledge
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