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<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.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Jackson | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Jackson Browne]], ''Life's Little Instruction Book''</cite> | ||
|04 = '''Knowledge is power.'''<br /> | |04 = '''Knowledge is power.'''<br /> | ||
<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> | ||
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<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]] ( | <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 = '''The ink of the learned is equal in merit to the blood of the martyrs.'''<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> | ||
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<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 problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.'''<br /> | |10 = '''If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Isaac Asimov]] ( | <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 infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Khalil Gibran]] ( | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Khalil Gibran]] (1883–1931)</cite> | ||
|12 = '''If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.'''<br /> | |12 = '''If you have knowledge, let others light their candles 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> | ||
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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
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