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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br /> | |01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)</cite> | ||
|02 = '''No man is wise enough by himself.''' | |02 = '''No man is wise enough by himself.''' | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Titus Maccius Plautus]] (254 BC - 184 BC), ''Miles Gloriosus''</cite> | ||
|03 = '''Share your knowledge. | |03 = '''Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.''' | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Jackson Browne, ''Life's Little Instruction Book''</cite> | ||
|04 = ''' | |04 = '''Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power).''' | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Francis Bacon|Sir Francis Bacon]] (1561 - 1626), ''Religious Meditations, Of Heresies''</cite> | |||
|05 = ''' | |05 = '''You [[teaching|teach]] best what you most need to [[learning|learn]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Bach<br /> </cite> | |||
|06 = '''It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.'''<br /> | |06 = '''It is no good to try to stop [[knowledge]] from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954)</cite> | ||
|07 = ''' | |07 = '''There is only one good, [[knowledge]], and one evil, ignorance.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite> | ||
|08 = ''' | |08 = '''Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903–1998)</cite> | ||
|09 = ''' | |09 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite> | |||
|10 = '''If knowledge | |10 = '''If you have [[knowledge]], let others light their [[candle]]s in it.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)</cite> | ||
|11 = ''' | |11 = '''Education is not filling a [[bucket]] but lighting a [[fire]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Butler Yeats]]<br /></cite> | |||
|12 = ''' | |12 = '''Writing is one of the most effective ways to develop thinking.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Syrene Forsman, ''Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think''</cite> | ||
|13 = ''' | |13 = '''Do not [[writing|write]] merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)</cite> | ||
|14 = ''' | |14 = '''Man's [[mind]] stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894)</cite> | |||
|15 = ''' | |15 = '''He who keeps on reviewing his old [[knowledge]] and acquiring new knowledge may become a [[teacher]] of others.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]</cite> | |||
|16 = ''' | |16 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br /> | |||
|17 = ''' | |17 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and opinion; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter ignorance.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite> | ||
|18 = ''' | |18 = '''[[Knowledge]] is like [[money]]: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), U.S. author</cite> | ||
|19 = ''' | |19 = '''Nothing you do is important, but it is very important that you do it.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite> | ||
|20 = ''' | |20 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a windowpane.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— George Orwell (1903–1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write'']</cite> | ||
|21 = ''' | |21 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Anonymous</cite> | ||
|22 = ''' | |22 = '''Truth . . . never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him who brought her forth.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Milton]]</cite> | ||
|23 = ''' | |23 = '''If you want to master something, teach it.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Feynman</cite> | ||
|24 = ''' | |24 = '''The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny …”'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Anonymous, attributed to [[Isaac Asimov]]</cite> | ||
|25 = '''That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | |25 = '''That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827)</cite> | ||
|26 = '''I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.'''<br /> | |26 = '''I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American [[physicist]]</cite> | ||
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|27 = ''' | |27 = '''The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Frank Herbert, American [[science fiction]] author (1920 - 1986)<br /> </cite> | ||
|28 = ''' | |28 = '''[[Word]]s are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Bernard Shaw]] </cite> | ||
|29 = '''The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.'''<br /> | |29 = '''The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American physicist</cite> | ||
|30 = '''The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.'''<br /> | |30 = '''The more I want to get something done, the less I call it [[work]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Bach</cite> | ||
|31 = ''' | |31 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''</cite> | ||
|32 = '''It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.'''<br /> | |32 = '''It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]<br /></cite> | ||
|33 = ''' | |33 = '''…it is what you learn by [[writing]] that gives the work its pull.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— David McCullough, from ''Mornings on Horseback''<br /></cite> | ||
|34 = '''The only source of knowledge is experience.'''<br /> | |34 = '''The only source of [[knowledge]] is experience.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite> | ||
|35 = ''' | |35 = '''To study the greatest of the scholars of the past is to enjoy intercourse with superior minds.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite> | ||
|36 = ''' | |36 = '''Writing is easy. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Red Smith</cite> | ||
|37 = '''Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.'''<br /> | |37 = '''Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite> | ||
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Latest revision as of 07:45, 16 October 2024
Good prose is like a windowpane.
— George Orwell (1903–1950) Why I Write
—add a quotation about knowledge or writing