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Source: The Timeless Way of Building
“He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.”
Source: The Pathos of Distance: A Book of a Thousand and One Moments
“Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.”
Source: T. H. Huxley on Education
Source: The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley
“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
“There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.”
“The best knowledge workers are working for more than money.”
“Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.”
“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”
Source: James and Dewey on Belief and Experience
“Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.”
Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, Anas, Writings 1760-1770
Source: The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High-Chancellor of England: Methodized, and Made English from the Originals, with Occasional Notes, To Explain what is Obscure; and Show how Far the Several PLANS of the AUTHOR, for the Advancement of All the Parts of Knowledge, Have Been Executed to the Present Time
Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
Source: Elements of Electro-metallurgy
“For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.”
Source: Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2
“He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.”
“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”
Source: Introduction to a science of mythology: the myth of the Divine Child and the mysteries of Eleusis
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Source: Lectures on Modern History
Source: Science is a sacred cow
Source: The Modern Chesterfield
“The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.”
“Be that self which one truly is.”
Source: The Wisdom of Kierkegaard
“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”
Source: The Voice of the Desert, a Naturalist's Interpretation.