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For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Plutarch
Thinking, Technology, Mind
Plutarch (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Plutarch (Illustrated)”, p.1913, Delphi Classics
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.