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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 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 [[wisdom|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 Browne]], ''Life's Little Instruction Book''</cite>
       <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).'''
     <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 (biology)|organ]] of [[sight]], not the [[eye]]s.'''<br />
|05 = '''Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.'''<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;">— 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;">&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 [[scholar|learned]] is equal in [[merit]] to the [[blood]] of the [[martyr]]s.'''<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 [[knowledge|know]] more than you [[thought|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 [[problem]]s, 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 [[infinity|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 [[candle]]s 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 [[effectiveness|effective]] ways to [[learning|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 [[pain]]ful process of [[transformation|transforming]] [[three-dimensional]], [[parallel processing|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 [[writing|write]] merely to be [[understanding|understood]]. Write so you cannot possibly be [[misunderstanding|misunderstood]].'''<br />
|16 = '''All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.'''<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;">— 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>
|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 [[apnea|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 [[teaching|teach]] must never cease to [[learning|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 [[flight|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 [[action|do]] is [[importance|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) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write'']</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Anonymous, attributed to [[Isaac Asimov]]</cite>
|25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|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 [[learning|learned]] very early the difference between [[knowledge|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 [[speech|speak]], thereof one must be [[silence|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 = '''[[Word]]s are only [[postage stamp]]s 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 [[fooling|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 [[desire|want]] to get something [[action|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 [[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 = '''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 [[education|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 [[pile|piling]] up [[fact]]s; [[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>
|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 = '''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; [[Iris Murdoch]]<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;">&mdash; [[Richard Bach]]<br />
     <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 />
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    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Frank Herbert]], American [[science fiction]] author (1920 - 1986)<br />
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|41 = '''Education is not filling a [[bucket]] but lighting a [[fire]].'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[William Butler Yeats]]<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;">&mdash; [[David McCullough]], from ''Mornings on Horseback''<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;">&mdash; [[Wislawa Szymborska]]<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;">&mdash; [[Hippocrates]]''<br />
|45 = '''Well begun is half done.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Aristotle]]''<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;">&mdash; [[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 />
|47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the [[future]].'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[Confucius]]]<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;">&mdash; [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br />
|49 = '''Quality is what we live for.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[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 />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash;[[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 />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">&mdash; [[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.''' - -  Mark Twain
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