How little such a one must have had to think about, since he has had so much time for reading!

Guilty.

Students and learned men of every kind and every age go as a rule in search of information, not insight.  They make it a point of honour to have information about everything: It does not occur to them that information is merely a means toward insight and possesses little or no value in itself.  When I see how much these well-informed people know, I sometimes say to myself: Oh, how little such a one must have had to think about, since he has had so much time for reading!

From the Penguin anthology – Essays and Aphorisms (pg. 220).

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