Rote Quotes

“Memory is not wisdom ; idiots can rote volumes :
Yet, what is wisdom without memory ? a babe that is strangled in its birth ;
The path of the swallow in the air ; the path of the dolphin in the waters ;
A cask running out ; a bottomless chasm : such is wisdom without memory.
There be many wise, who cannot store their knowledge ;
Yet from themselves are they satisfied, for the fountain is within :”
― Martin Farquhar Tupper, Proverbial Philosophy

“Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

“The subconscious is a minefield of unwanted rote thoughts.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail