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Quote by John Heywood

“Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?”

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John Heywood (1497-1580) was an influential English writer, playwright, and poet during the Renaissance. His extensive works, including plays, poetry, and prose, have had a profound impact on British literature. more

“It is well, when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered, amongst the multitude! Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions may be propagated amongst the people. Diffusion, then, rather than discovery, is the duty of our government.”

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Author:Horace Mann

“Solitary reading will enable a man to stuff himself with information, but without conversation his mind will become like a pond without an outlet-a mass of unhealthy stag-nature. It is not enough to harvest knowledge by study; the wind of talk must winnow it and blow away the chaff. Then will the clear, bright grains of wisdom be garnered, for our own use or that of others.”

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Author:William Matthews

“As the age of information demands the simultaneous use of all our faculties, we discover that we are most at leisure when we are most intensely involved.”

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Author:Marshall McLuhan

“We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.”

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Author:Novalis

“Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing. This universality is the best. If we can have both, still better; but if we must choose, we ought to choose the former.”

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Author:Blaise Pascal

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