A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that…he is going to be a beginner all his life.
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What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
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Birth: | 22nd February, 1889 |
Death: | 9th January, 1943 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Historian, Philosopher |
Robin George Collingwood was an English philosopher and historian. He was born at Cartmel, Grange-over-Sands in Lancashire, the son of the academic W. G. Collingwood. He was educated at Rugby School and at University College, Oxford, where he read Greats. He graduated with congratulatory first class honours and, prior to his graduation, was elected a fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford
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