Quotes of Rote - somelinesforyou

“ Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ”

- Martin Tupper

“ Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign. ”

- William Cowper

“ Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a precedent, to praise. ”

- Sir Martin Archer Shee
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