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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;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite> | ||
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<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894)</cite> | <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;">— Confucius</cite> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]</cite> | ||
|19 = '''All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.'''<br /> | |19 = '''All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.'''<br /> | ||
<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> | <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> | ||
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|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;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /> | <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /> | ||
|35 = '''All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Martin H. Fischer]]<br /> | |||
|36 = '''Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Martin H. Fischer]]<br /> | |||
|37 = '''Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.'''<br /> | |||
<cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /> | |||
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Revision as of 19:40, 12 December 2009
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
— Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
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