Karl von Clausewitz Quotes on Learning

3 quotes

  1. ...an intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.

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  2. Knowledge must be so absorbed into the mind that it ceases to exist in a separate, objective way.' '...in 1797 the secret of the effectiveness of resisting to the last had not yet been discovered.

  3. Theory should be study, not doctrine.

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