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Quotation from On the Choice of Books by Thomas Carlyle
“Count a thing known only when it is stamped on your mind, so that you may survey it on all sides with intelligence”
On the Choice of Books, Rectorial Address, Edinburgh, 2 April 1866 (on diligence as honesty) (Project Gutenberg #13435)
Diligence is defined as honesty in inquiry, keeping known and unknown strictly apart.
Citation: "Count a thing known only when it is stamped on your mind, so that you may survey it on all sides with intelligence" — Thomas Carlyle, On the Choice of Books, Rectorial Address, Edinburgh, 2 April 1866 (on diligence as honesty) (Project Gutenberg #13435). (id on-the-choice-of-books-q3)
