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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 [[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 wise enough by himself.'''
       <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]]. It's a way to achieve [[immortality]].'''<br />
|03 = '''Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.'''
       <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 = '''Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus [[knowledge]] itself is [[power]]).'''<br />
|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>
     <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 (biology)|organ]] of [[sight]], not the [[eye]]s.'''<br />
|05 = '''You [[teaching|teach]] best what you most need to [[learning|learn]].'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— From the [[Panchatantra]] [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/440899/Panchatantra (Indian literature)]</cite>
    <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;">— [[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 martyrs.'''<br />
|07 = '''There is only one good, [[knowledge]], and one evil, ignorance.'''<br />
      <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 />
       <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 [[knowledge|know]] more than you [[thought|think]] you do.'''<br />
|08 = '''Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903–1998)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903–1998)</cite>
|10 = '''If knowledge can create problems, it is not through [[ignorance]] that we can solve them.'''<br />
|09 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Isaac Asimov]] (1920–1992)</cite>
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
|11 = '''A little [[knowledge]] that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.'''<br />
|10 = '''If you have [[knowledge]], let others light their [[candle]]s in it.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Khalil Gibran (1883–1931)</cite>
|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 />
|11 = '''Education is not filling a [[bucket]] but lighting a [[fire]].'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Atwood]] (1939-)</cite>
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Butler Yeats]]<br /></cite>
|14 = '''[[Writing]] is one of the most [[effectiveness|effective]] ways to [[learning|develop]] [[thinking]].'''<br />
|12 = '''Writing is one of the most effective ways to 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 painful process of transforming three-dimensional, parallel-processed experience into two-dimensional, linear narrative.'''<br />
|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;">—  Susan Hockfield (neuroscientist)</cite>
|16 = '''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;">— 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 />
|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>
     <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 />
|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>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]</cite>
|19 = '''All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.'''<br />
|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;">— 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;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br />
|20 = '''Who dares to [[teaching|teach]] must never cease to [[learning|learn]].'''<br />
|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;">— John Cotton Dana (1856–1929), American librarian and museum director.</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></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 />
|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;">— Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), U.S. author</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— 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 />
|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;">— [[William Shakespeare]] (1564–1616), Lord Saye, in Henry VI, Part 2, act</cite>
|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 />
|20 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a windowpane.'''<br />
     <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>
     <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>
|25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br />
|21 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827), French [[physicist]] and [[Math|mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite>
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Anonymous</cite>
|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;">— [[John Milton]]</cite>
|23 = '''If you want to master something, teach it.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Feynman</cite>
|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;">— Anonymous, attributed to [[Isaac Asimov]]</cite>
|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;">— 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;">— [[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 [[speech|speak]], thereof one must be [[silence|silent]].'''<br />
|27 = '''The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Ludwig Wittgenstein</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Frank Herbert, American [[science fiction]] author (1920 - 1986)<br /> </cite>
|28 = '''[[Word]]s are only [[postage stamp]]s delivering the object for you to unwrap.'''<br />
|28 = '''[[Word]]s are only postage stamps 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 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 want to get something done, the less I call it [[work]].'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Bach</cite>
|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.'''<br />
|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;">— [http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/the-masis-report_en.pdf MASIS report] of the European Commission<br /></cite>
     <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;">— [[Aristotle]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]<br /></cite>
|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 = '''…it is what you learn by [[writing]] that gives the work its pull.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Daniel Boorstin]]<br /></cite>
     <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;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite>
|35 = '''All the [[world]] is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.'''<br />
|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;">— Martin H. Fischer<br /></cite>
|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>
|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>
|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>
|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>
|40 = '''The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Frank Herbert, American [[science fiction]] author (1920 - 1986)<br /> </cite>
|41 = '''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>
|42 = '''…it is what you learn by [[writing]] that gives the work its pull.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[David McCullough]], from ''Mornings on Horseback''<br /></cite>
|43 = '''Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Wislawa Szymborska]]<br />
|44 = '''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;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite>
|45 = '''Well begun is half done.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]''<br /></cite>
|46 = '''Every minute of every day, millions of curious [[ape]]s click billions of [[hyperlink|links]], each tracing their own miniature voyages of [[discovery]].'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Martin Robbins]] in a [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/28/science-journalism-spoof blog post] for [[The Guardian]]''<br /></cite>
|47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]]<br /></cite>
|48 = '''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 />
|50 = '''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;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
|51 = '''Writing is easy.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br />
|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;">— Red Smith</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Red Smith</cite>
|52 = '''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 />
|37 = '''Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
|53 = '''The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first our own increase of knowledge; secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.'''<br />
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    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Locke]]''<br />
|54 = '''[The reader] must write the text as much as possible in order to avoid being written by the text's ideology.'''
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Phillipe Soller, novelist<br />
|55 = '''We do but learn today what our better advanced judgements will unteach tomorrow.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Sir Thomas Browne<br />
|56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
|57 = '''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;">— [[John Milton]]<br />
|58 = '''If you want to master something, teach it.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Feynman<br />
|59 = '''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;">— Anonymous, attributed to [[Isaac Asimov]]<br />
}}<br>
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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
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