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|04 = '''Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power).''' | |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 = ''' | |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;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954)</cite> | ||
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|15 = '''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> | ||
|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;">— | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br /> | ||
|17 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and opinion; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter ignorance.'''<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;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite> | ||
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|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> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite> | ||
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—<small>''[[CZ:Quote|add a quotation about knowledge or writing]]''</small> | —<small>''[[CZ:Quote|add a quotation about knowledge or writing]]''</small> | ||
Latest revision as of 07:45, 16 October 2024
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)
—add a quotation about knowledge or writing