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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 accurate information in the world.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[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;">&mdash; [[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;">&mdash; [[Jackson Brown]], ''Life's Little Instruction Book''</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Jackson Browne, ''Life's Little Instruction Book''</cite>
|04 = '''Knowledge 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;">&mdash; [[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 of sight, not the eyes.'''<br />
|05 = '''You [[teaching|teach]] best what you most need to [[learning|learn]].'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; From the [[Panchatantra|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;">&mdash; [[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;">&mdash; [[Louis de Bernières]] (b. 1954), ''Birds Without Wings''</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite>
|08 = '''There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.'''<br />
|08 = '''Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903–1998)</cite>
|09 = '''Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.'''<br />
|09 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Benjamin Spock|Dr. Benjamin Spock]] (1903-1998)</cite>
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
|10 = '''If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.'''<br />
|10 = '''If you have [[knowledge]], let others light their [[candle]]s in it.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Isaac Asimov]] (1920 - 1992)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)</cite>
|11 = '''A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.'''<br />
|11 = '''Education is not filling a [[bucket]] but lighting a [[fire]].'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Khalil Gibran]] (1883 - 1931)</cite>
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Butler Yeats]]<br /></cite>
|12 = '''If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.'''<br />
|12 = '''Writing is one of the most effective ways to develop thinking.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Margaret Fuller]] (1810-1850)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Syrene Forsman, ''Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think''</cite>
|13 = '''A word after a word after a word is power.'''<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;">&mdash; [[Margaret Atwood]] (1939-)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)</cite>
|14 = '''Writing is one of the most effective ways to develop thinking.'''<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;">&mdash; [[Syrene Forsman]], ''Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think''</cite>
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894)</cite>
|15 = '''Writing, the painful process of transforming three-dimensional, parallel-processed experience into two-dimensional, linear narrative.'''<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;">&mdash; [http://tinyurl.com/nglnfo Susan Hockfield] (neuroscientist)</cite>
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]</cite>
|16 = '''Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.'''<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;">&mdash; Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)</cite>
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br />
|17 = '''Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.'''<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;">&mdash; Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite>
|18 = '''He who keeps on reviewing his old knowledge and acquiring new knowledge may become a teacher of others.'''<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;">&mdash; [[Confucius]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), U.S. author</cite>
|19 = '''All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.'''<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;">&mdash; 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;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite>
|20 = '''Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.'''<br />
|20 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a windowpane.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; John Cotton Dana (1856–1929), American librarian and museum director.</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>
|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 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [http://www.louislamour.com Louis L'Amour (1908-1988), U.S. author]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Anonymous</cite>
|22 = '''Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.'''<br />
|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;">&mdash; William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Lord Saye, in Henry VI, Part 2, act</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Milton]]</cite>
|23 = '''Nothing you do is important, but it is very important that you do it.'''<br />
|23 = '''If you want to master something, teach it.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; Mahatma Gandhi</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Feynman</cite>
|24 = '''Good prose is like a windowpane.'''<br />
|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;">&mdash; George Orwell (1903-1950)</cite>
     <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 />
|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;">&mdash; Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749-1827), French physicist and mathematician, systematizer and elaborator of probability theory</cite>
     <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;">&mdash; 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 speak, thereof one must be 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;">&mdash; Ludwig Wittgenstein</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Frank Herbert, American [[science fiction]] author (1920 - 1986)<br /> </cite>
|28 = '''Words are only postage stamps 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;">&mdash; 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;">&mdash; 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;">&mdash; Richard Bach
     <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;">&mdash; [http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/the-masis-report_en.pdf MASIS report of the European Commission]<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;">&mdash; [[Aristotle]]<br />
     <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;">&mdash; [[Daniel Boorstin]]<br />
     <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;">&mdash; [[Albert Einstein]]<br />
     <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;">&mdash; [[Martin H. Fischer]]<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
|36 = '''Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.'''<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;">&mdash; [[Martin H. Fischer]]<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;">&mdash; [[Confucius]]<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
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