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1->Information learned is more valuable than information given.
2-->-- '''Al Mualim''', ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI''
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4->'''Lobsang:''' Well, I just... I thought... well, I just thought you'd be teaching me more, that's all.\
5'''Lu-Tze:''' I'm teaching you things all the time. You might not be ''learning'' them, of course.
6-->-- ''Literature/ThiefOfTime''
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8->It is simple, Chan Sen, you can kill me and avenge your master... ''or'' you can listen to me and surpass him.
9-->-- '''Master Liu Wong''', ''Webcomic/HowIKilledYourMaster''
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11->I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be to forbid him to read them and then make sure he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.
12-->-- '''Creator/CSLewis''', ''On Stories and Other Essays''
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14->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' You realize this is information we could've used ''hours'' ago?!\
15'''Discord:''' And rob you of a valuable lesson? [...] What kind of friend do you think I am?
16-->-- ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''
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18->'''[[TheSpook Deacon:]]''' We've been making the rounds, doing the job. It's time you learned the Big Secret. Everyone thinks Desdemona is the big boss - she calls the ops, gives the ra-ra speeches... [[DecoyLeader but it's just an act.]] She does what I tell her to because the Railroad is my show. It's been that way since I founded it. [...] People think our mission's all about Synths, but there's more going on. We're building a better, brighter Commonwealth. The Railroad really is the best, noblest organization that's ever lived. We're... we're... (''snickers'') I can't keep up with this bullshit.\
19'''[[PlayerCharacter The Sole Survivor:]]''' Why the hell are you lying to me? ''Again?''\
20'''Deacon:''' Because ItsWhatIDo. And there's a point to this, a lesson if you will. There's other organizations out there, and in time, I'm sure they're going to spoon-feed you their own patented form of bullshit. Ignore the [[BuffySpeak verbage]] and look at what they're ''doing.'' What they're asking ''you'' to do. What sort of world they'd have you build, and how they're going to pay for it.\
21'''Sole Survivor:''' I don't need any more of your lies.\
22'''Deacon:''' Then boy did ''you'' choose the wrong traveling companion! But hey, listen - at the end of the day, you're going to have to make a choice. Make sure it's the right one.
23-->-- ''VideoGame/Fallout4''
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25->'''[[TricksterGod Zina]]:''' [[AsTheGoodBookSays As it says in Scripture]], "I am Wisdom, I bestow shrewdness/and show the way to knowledge and prudence."
26->'''[[GooGooGodlike Emmanuel]]:''' But you told me you are not Holy Wisdom, that you only pretended to be.
27->'''Zina:''' It is up to you to discern who I am. You yourself must decipher my identity.
28->'''Emmanuel:''' And in the meantime - tricks.
29->'''Zina:''' Yes, because it is through tricks that you will learn.
30-->--''[[Creator/PhilipKDick The Divine Invasion]]''
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