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|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 /> | |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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | ||
|02 = '''No man is [[wisdom|wise]] enough by himself.'''<br /> | |02 = '''No man is [[wisdom|wise]] enough by himself.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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;"> | <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]]).'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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 = '''[[Knowledge]] is the true [[organ (biology)|organ]] of [[sight]], not the [[eye]]s.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— From the [[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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954)</cite> | ||
|07 = '''The [[ink]] of the [[scholar|learned]] is equal in [[merit]] to the [[blood]] of the [[martyr]]s.'''<br /> | |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;"> | <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;"> | <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 /> | |09 = '''[[Trust]] yourself. You [[knowledge|know]] more than you [[thought|think]] you do.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Benjamin Spock|Dr. Benjamin Spock]] (1903–1998)</cite> | ||
|10 = '''If [[knowledge]] can create [[problem]]s, it is not through [[ignorance]] that we can solve them.'''<br /> | |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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Isaac Asimov]] (1920–1992)</cite> | ||
|11 = '''A little [[knowledge]] that acts is worth [[infinity|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;"> | <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 /> | |12 = '''If you have [[knowledge]], let others light their [[candle]]s in it.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Atwood]] (1939-)</cite> | ||
|14 = '''[[Writing]] is one of the most [[effectiveness|effective]] ways to [[learning|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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Syrene Forsman]], ''Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think''</cite> | ||
|15 = '''[[Writing]], the [[pain]]ful process of [[transformation|transforming]] [[three-dimensional]], [[parallel processing|parallel-processed]] [[experience]] into [[two-dimensional]], [[linear]] [[narrative]].'''<br /> | |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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://tinyurl.com/nglnfo Susan Hockfield] (neuroscientist)</cite> | ||
|16 = '''Do not [[writing|write]] merely to be [[understanding|understood]]. Write so you cannot possibly be [[misunderstanding|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;"> | <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;"> | <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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]</cite> | ||
|19 = '''All good [[writing]] is [[swimming]] [[under water]] and [[apnea|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;"> | <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 [[teaching|teach]] must never cease to [[learning|learn]].'''<br /> | |20 = '''Who dares to [[teaching|teach]] must never cease to [[learning|learn]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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;"> | <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 [[flight|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;"> | <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 /> | |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;"> | <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;"> | <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 /> | |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;"> | <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 [[learning|learned]] very early the difference between [[knowledge|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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American [[physicist]]</cite> | ||
(taken from [http://web.me.com/dtrapp/Elements/elements.html here]) | (taken from [http://web.me.com/dtrapp/Elements/elements.html here]) | ||
|27 = '''Whereof one cannot [[speech|speak]], thereof one must be [[silence|silent]].'''<br /> | |27 = '''Whereof one cannot [[speech|speak]], thereof one must be [[silence|silent]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]</cite> | ||
|28 = '''[[Word]]s are only [[postage stamp]]s delivering the object for you to unwrap.'''<br /> | |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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Bernard Shaw]] </cite> | ||
|29 = '''The first | |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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American physicist</cite> | ||
|30 = '''The more I [[desire|want]] to get something [[action|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;"> | <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 [[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 /> | |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;"> | <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> | ||
|32 = '''It is the mark of an [[education|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;"> | <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 = '''[[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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Daniel Boorstin]]<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;"> | <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 = '''All the [[world]] is a [[laboratory]] to the inquiring [[mind]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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 /> | |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;"> | <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 /> | |37 = '''Real [[knowledge]] is to know the extent of one's [[ignorance]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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 /> | |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;"> | <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 /> | |39 = '''You [[teaching|teach]] best what you most need to [[learning|learn]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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 [[understanding|understand]].'''<br /> | |40 = '''The beginning of [[knowledge]] is the [[discovery]] of something we do not [[understanding|understand]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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 /> | |41 = '''Education is not filling a [[bucket]] but lighting a [[fire]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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 /> | |42 = '''…it is what you learn by [[writing]] that gives the work its pull.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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 /> | |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;"> | <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 later [[ignorance]].'''<br /> | |44 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and [[opinion]]; the former begets [[knowledge]], the later [[ignorance]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite> | ||
|45 = '''Well begun is half done.'''<br /> | |45 = '''Well begun is half done.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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 /> | |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;"> | <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 /> | |47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the [[future]].'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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 /> | |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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br /> | ||
|49 = '''Quality is what we live for.'''<br /> | |49 = '''Quality is what we live for.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Brian Goodwin]], How the Leopard Changed Its Spots, Preface, 2001''<br /> | ||
|50 = '''Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.'''<br /> | |50 = '''Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">—[[John Steinbeck]]<br /> | ||
|51 = '''Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn't exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.'''<br /> | |51 = '''Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn't exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Steinbeck]]<br/> | ||
|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 /> | |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 /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br /> | ||
|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 /> | |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 /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <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.''' | |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;"> | <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 /> | |55 = '''We do but learn today what our better advanced judgements will unteach tomorrow.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Sir Thomas Browne]]<br /> | ||
|56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.''' | |56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.''' | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br /> | ||
|57 = '''You must have one grand passion.'''<br /> | |57 = '''You must have one grand passion.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br /> | ||
|58 = '''Push yourself to the limit as often as possible.'''<br /> | |58 = '''Push yourself to the limit as often as possible.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br /> | ||
|59 = '''Potential counts for nothing until it’s realized.'''<br /> | |59 = '''Potential counts for nothing until it’s realized.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br /> | ||
|60 = '''A little knowledge can go a long way.'''<br /> | |60 = '''A little knowledge can go a long way.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br /> | ||
|61 = '''A sincere effort is all you can ask.'''<br /> | |61 = '''A sincere effort is all you can ask.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br /> | ||
|62 = '''The exact measure of one’s understanding of anything is rather the extent to which one can couch one’s understanding of it in words; and the measure of one’s understanding of someone else’s explanation is one’s ability to explain his explanation in one’s own terms. Accordingly, one of the most efficacious ways to develop one’s understanding of anything is to try to explain it to someone else; teaching does return a reward. For explaining one’s experience forces one to give narrative form to it; and as the words come and the sentences flow, the information is organized and systematized: the facts “fall into place.”'''<br /> | |62 = '''The exact measure of one’s understanding of anything is rather the extent to which one can couch one’s understanding of it in words; and the measure of one’s understanding of someone else’s explanation is one’s ability to explain his explanation in one’s own terms. Accordingly, one of the most efficacious ways to develop one’s understanding of anything is to try to explain it to someone else; teaching does return a reward. For explaining one’s experience forces one to give narrative form to it; and as the words come and the sentences flow, the information is organized and systematized: the facts “fall into place.”'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Leslie Dewart<br /> | ||
|63 = '''Writing is easy. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br /> | |63 = '''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;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Red Smith]]</cite> | ||
|64 ='''The writer tries to move stuff from his brain into the brains of his readers, using words as his only tools. Good writing doesn't just transport ideas—it gives the reader a visceral experience, as if the writer is reaching inside his skull, grabbing fistfuls of neurons, twisting them, petting them, and sometimes crushing them.'''<br /> | |64 ='''The writer tries to move stuff from his brain into the brains of his readers, using words as his only tools. Good writing doesn't just transport ideas—it gives the reader a visceral experience, as if the writer is reaching inside his skull, grabbing fistfuls of neurons, twisting them, petting them, and sometimes crushing them.'''<br /> | ||
<cite style="font:size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font:size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Gunnar Olsson<br/> | ||
|65 = "To understand is to be immersed in language, to live in the conjunction between one expression and another. At least in that context it is literally true that in the beginning is the word. . . .without names there may well be sweet- and salt-water oceans, but neither gods nor rocks, neither knowledge nor understanding."<br /> | |65 = "To understand is to be immersed in language, to live in the conjunction between one expression and another. At least in that context it is literally true that in the beginning is the word. . . .without names there may well be sweet- and salt-water oceans, but neither gods nor rocks, neither knowledge nor understanding."<br /> | ||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;"> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://www.quora.com/Writing/What-should-everyone-know-about-writing Marcus Geduld]</cite> | ||
}}<br> | }}<br> | ||
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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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