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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 [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | ||
|02 = '''No man is wise enough by himself.'''<br /> | |02 = '''No man is [[wisdom|wise]] enough by himself.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Titus Maccius Plautus]] (254 BC - 184 BC), ''Miles Gloriosus''</cite> | <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]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Jackson Browne]], ''Life's Little Instruction Book''</cite> | <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]]).'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Francis Bacon|Sir Francis Bacon]] (1561 - 1626), ''Religious Meditations, Of Heresies''</cite> | |||
|05 = '''Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the | |05 = '''[[Knowledge]] is the true [[organ (biology)|organ]] of [[sight]], not the [[eye]]s.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— From the [[Panchatantra|Panchatantra]] [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/440899/Panchatantra (Indian literature)]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— From the [[Panchatantra|Panchatantra]] [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/440899/Panchatantra (Indian literature)]</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;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954)</cite> | ||
|07 = '''The ink of the learned is equal in merit to the blood of the | |07 = '''The [[ink]] of the [[scholar|learned]] is equal in [[merit]] to the [[blood]] of the [[martyr]]s.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Louis de Bernières]] (b. 1954), ''Birds Without Wings''</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Louis de Bernières]] (b. 1954), ''Birds Without Wings''</cite> | ||
|08 = '''There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.'''<br /> | |08 = '''There is only one good, [[knowledge]], and one evil, [[ignorance]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite> | ||
|09 = '''Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.'''<br /> | |09 = '''[[Trust]] yourself. You [[knowledge|know]] more than you [[thought|think]] you do.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Benjamin Spock|Dr. Benjamin Spock]] (1903-1998)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Benjamin Spock|Dr. Benjamin Spock]] (1903-1998)</cite> | ||
|10 = '''If knowledge can create | |10 = '''If [[knowledge]] can create [[problem]]s, it is not through [[ignorance]] that we can solve them.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Isaac Asimov]] (1920–1992)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Isaac Asimov]] (1920–1992)</cite> | ||
|11 = '''A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.'''<br /> | |11 = '''A little [[knowledge]] that acts is worth [[infinity|infinitely]] more than much knowledge that is idle.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Khalil Gibran]] (1883–1931)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Khalil Gibran]] (1883–1931)</cite> | ||
|12 = '''If you have knowledge, let others light their | |12 = '''If you have [[knowledge]], let others light their [[candle]]s in it.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Fuller]] (1810-1850)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Fuller]] (1810-1850)</cite> | ||
|13 = '''A word after a word after a word is power.'''<br /> | |13 = '''A [[word]] after a word after a word is [[power]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Atwood]] (1939-)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Atwood]] (1939-)</cite> | ||
|14 = '''Writing is one of the most effective ways to develop thinking.'''<br /> | |14 = '''[[Writing]] is one of the most [[effectiveness|effective]] ways to [[learning|develop]] [[thinking]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Syrene Forsman]], ''Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think''</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Syrene Forsman]], ''Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think''</cite> | ||
|15 = '''Writing, the | |15 = '''[[Writing]], the [[pain]]ful process of [[transformation|transforming]] [[three-dimensional]], [[parallel processing|parallel-processed]] [[experience]] into [[two-dimensional]], [[linear]] [[narrative]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://tinyurl.com/nglnfo Susan Hockfield] (neuroscientist)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://tinyurl.com/nglnfo Susan Hockfield] (neuroscientist)</cite> | ||
|16 = '''Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.'''<br /> | |16 = '''Do not [[writing|write]] merely to be [[understanding|understood]]. Write so you cannot possibly be [[misunderstanding|misunderstood]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] (1850-1894)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] (1850-1894)</cite> | ||
|17 = '''Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.'''<br /> | |17 = '''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> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Oliver Wendell Holmes]] (1809-1894)</cite> | ||
|18 = '''He who keeps on reviewing his old knowledge and acquiring new knowledge may become a teacher of others.'''<br /> | |18 = '''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> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]</cite> | ||
|19 = '''All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.'''<br /> | |19 = '''All good [[writing]] is [[swimming]] [[under water]] and [[apnea|holding your breath]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] (1896-1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter Frances Scott Fitzgerald. The Crack-Up, ed. Edmund Wilson (1945). [http://poemhunter.com/quotations/swimming/ Source.] </cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] (1896-1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter [[Frances Scott Fitzgerald]]. The Crack-Up, ed. [[Edmund Wilson]] (1945). [http://poemhunter.com/quotations/swimming/ Source.] </cite> | ||
|20 = '''Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.'''<br /> | |20 = '''Who dares to [[teaching|teach]] must never cease to [[learning|learn]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Cotton Dana]] (1856–1929), American librarian and museum director.</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Cotton Dana]] (1856–1929), American librarian and museum director.</cite> | ||
|21 = '''Knowledge is like money: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.'''<br /> | |21 = '''[[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;">— [http://www.louislamour.com Louis L'Amour (1908-1988), U.S. author]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://www.louislamour.com Louis L'Amour (1908-1988), U.S. author]</cite> | ||
|22 = '''Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.'''<br /> | |22 = '''[[Ignorance]] is the [[curse]] of [[God]], [[knowledge]] the [[wing]] wherewith we [[flight|fly]] to [[heaven]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Shakespeare]] (1564-1616), Lord Saye, in Henry VI, Part 2, act</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Shakespeare]] (1564-1616), Lord Saye, in Henry VI, Part 2, act</cite> | ||
|23 = '''Nothing you do is important, but it is very important that you do it.'''<br /> | |23 = '''Nothing you [[action|do]] is [[importance|important]], but it is very important that you do it.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite> | ||
|24 = '''Good prose is like a windowpane.'''<br /> | |24 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a [[windowpane]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Orwell]] (1903-1950)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Orwell]] (1903-1950)</cite> | ||
|25 = '''That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | |25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Pierre-Simon de Laplace]] (1749-1827), French physicist and mathematician, systematizer and elaborator of probability theory</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Pierre-Simon de Laplace]] (1749-1827), French [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite> | ||
|26 = '''I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.'''<br /> | |26 = '''I've [[learning|learned]] very early the difference between [[knowledge|knowing]] the name of something and knowing something.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918-1988), American physicist</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918-1988), American [[physicist]]</cite> | ||
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|27 = '''Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.'''<br /> | |27 = '''Whereof one cannot [[speech|speak]], thereof one must be [[silence|silent]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]</cite> | ||
|28 = ''' | |28 = '''[[Word]]s are only [[postage stamp]]s delivering the object for you to unwrap.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Bernard Shaw]] </cite> | <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 [[fooling|fool]] yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918-1988), American physicist</cite> | <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 [[desire|want]] to get something [[action|done]], the less I call it [[work]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]] | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[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 | |31 = '''The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of [[information]] but how to increase people’s ability to find [[usefulness|useful]] information, to [[judgement|judge]] what is [[reliability|reliable]] and [[relevance|relevant]] for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes [[conflict]]ing information with which they are faced, and then to engage in [[communication]] and [[discussion]] when [[appropriateness|appropriate]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/the-masis-report_en.pdf MASIS report of the European Commission]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/the-masis-report_en.pdf MASIS report] of the [[European Commission]]<br /> | ||
|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 [[education|educated]] [[mind]] to be able to entertain a [[thought]] without accepting it.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]<br /> | ||
|33 = '''Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.'''<br /> | |33 = '''[[Knowledge]] is not simply another [[commodity]]. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by [[diffusion]] and grows by [[dispersion]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Daniel Boorstin]]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Daniel Boorstin]]<br /> | ||
|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;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /> | ||
|35 = '''All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.'''<br /> | |35 = '''All the [[world]] is a [[laboratory]] to the [[inquiry|inquiring]] [[mind]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Martin H. Fischer]]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Martin H. Fischer]]<br /> | ||
|36 = '''Knowledge is a process of piling up | |36 = '''[[Knowledge]] is a process of [[pile|piling]] up [[fact]]s; [[wisdom]] lies in their [[simplification]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Martin H. Fischer]]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Martin H. Fischer]]<br /> | ||
|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;">— [[Confucius]]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /> | ||
|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 | |38 = '''[[Words]] constitute the ultimate [[texture]] and [[stuff]] of our [[morale|moral being]], since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the [[symbolism]]s whereby we express ourselves into existence.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Iris Murdoch]]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Iris Murdoch]]<br /> | ||
|39 = ''' | |39 = '''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 style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]]<br /> | ||
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The ink of the learned is equal in merit to the blood of the martyrs.
— Louis de Bernières (b. 1954), Birds Without Wings
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