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|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 = '''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;">— [[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> | ||
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|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 = '''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> | |||
|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> | |||
|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> | ||
|38 = '''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 /> | |||
|39 = '''You [[teaching|teach]] best what you most need to [[learning|learn]].'''<br /> | |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> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Bach<br /> </cite> | ||
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|44 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and opinion; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter ignorance.'''<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> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite> | ||
| | |45 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<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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Revision as of 18:30, 18 September 2024
Good prose is like a windowpane.
— George Orwell (1903–1950) Why I Write
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