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Fri 29 Aug 2014

A difference

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“We owe almost all our knowledge, not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed.”

—Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon: Or, Many Things In Few Words

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Wed 9 Jul 2014

Unknown Known

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“If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.”

—Charles Caleb Cotton, Lacon

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Mon 16 Jun 2014

Puer aeternus

Posted by PJ under growing up, knowledge, quote of the day
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“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”

—Cicero, M. Tulli Ciceronis Ad M. Brutum Orator

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Fri 25 Apr 2014

Learn by doing

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Random quote of the day:

“I am always doing what I can’t do yet in order to learn how to do it.”

—Vincent Van Gogh, letter to Anthon van Rappard, August 1885 regarding his painting, The Potato Eaters

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Fri 7 Feb 2014

Fruitless

Posted by PJ under academia, knowledge, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.”

—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Notebook C, 1772-1773

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Fri 11 Nov 2011

Conjoined

Posted by PJ under knowledge, power, quote of the day
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“Knowledge and human power are synonymous…”

—Sir Francis Bacon, Novum Organum

 

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