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|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;">— Richard Bach</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Bach</cite>
|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;">— [[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;">— [[Aristotle]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]<br /></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>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite>
|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;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
|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;">— 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;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
|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;">— [[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;">— Richard Bach<br /> </cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Bach<br /> </cite>
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|44 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and opinion; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter ignorance.'''<br />
|44 = '''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;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite>
|47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br />
|45 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
     <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 />
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    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br />
|50 = '''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;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
|51 = '''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;">— Red Smith</cite>
|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;">— [[Mark Twain]]''</cite>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;—<small>''[[CZ:Quote|add a quotation about knowledge or writing]]''</small>

Revision as of 18:30, 18 September 2024

Study the past if you would divine the future.
Confucius

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