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{{#switch:26 |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.
— Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978) |02 = No man is wise enough by himself.
— Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Miles Gloriosus |03 = Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
— Jackson Browne, Life's Little Instruction Book |04 = Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power).
— Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies |05 = Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.
— From the Panchatantra (Indian literature) |06 = It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
— Enrico Fermi (1901–1954) |07 = The ink of the learned is equal in merit to the blood of the martyrs.
— Louis de Bernières (b. 1954), Birds Without Wings |08 = There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
— Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers |09 = Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
— Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903-1998) |10 = If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
— Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) |11 = A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
— Khalil Gibran (1883–1931) |12 = If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
— Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) |13 = A word after a word after a word is power.
— Margaret Atwood (1939-) |14 = Writing is one of the most effective ways to develop thinking.
— Syrene Forsman, Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think |15 = Writing, the painful process of transforming three-dimensional, parallel-processed experience into two-dimensional, linear narrative.
— Susan Hockfield (neuroscientist) |16 = Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
— Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) |17 = Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) |18 = He who keeps on reviewing his old knowledge and acquiring new knowledge may become a teacher of others.
— Confucius |19 = All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). Source. |20 = Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
— John Cotton Dana (1856–1929), American librarian and museum director. |21 = Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
— Louis L'Amour (1908-1988), U.S. author |22 = Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
— William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Lord Saye, in Henry VI, Part 2, act |23 = Nothing you do is important, but it is very important that you do it.
— Mahatma Gandhi |24 = Good prose is like a windowpane.
— George Orwell (1903-1950) [Source |25 = That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense.
— Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827), French physicist and mathematician, systematizer and elaborator of probability theory |26 = I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
— Richard Feynman (1918-1988), American physicist (taken from here) |27 = Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein |28 = Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.
— George Bernard Shaw |29 = The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
— Richard Feynman (1918-1988), American physicist |30 = The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
— Richard Bach |31 = The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of information but how to increase people’s ability to find useful information, to judge what is reliable and relevant for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes conflicting information with which they are faced, and then to engage in communication and discussion when appropriate.
— MASIS report of the European Commission
|32 = It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
|33 = Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
— Daniel Boorstin
|34 = The only source of knowledge is experience.
— Albert Einstein
|35 = All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.
— Martin H. Fischer
|36 = Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
— Martin H. Fischer
|37 = Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
— Confucius
|38 = Words constitute the ultimate texture and stuff of our moral being, since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the symbolisms whereby we express ourselves into existence.
— Iris Murdoch
|39 = You teach best what you most need to learn.
— Richard Bach
|40 = The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
— Frank Herbert, American science fiction author (1920 - 1986)
|41 = Education is not filling a bucket but lighting a fire.
— William Butler Yeats
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