Rote Quotes

Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.

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

I woke up an hour before I was supposed to, and started going over the mental checklist: where do I go from here, what do I do? I don't remember eating anything at all, just going through the physical, getting into the suit. We practiced that so much, it was all rote.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.