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“Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.”

May Book Use Pleasure Knowledge Study Conversation Draws Method Notion Engaged Charm Multitudes Invitations Couches Comprehension Sloth Rectify

Book:A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians

Source: A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians

“We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.”

Ifs Knows Years Wells Enough Science Next Rooms Knowledge Path Greater Television Development Conversation Achievement Window Following Fifty Owners Surprising Telephones Rapids Wireless

Author:Winston Churchill

“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.”

Men Mind Enough Use Reading Stuff Knowledge Study Clear Information Wind Conversation Mass Blow Grain Solitary Harvest Outlets Unhealthy Ponds Stags

Author:William Matthews

“More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.”

Men May Real Character Knowledge Conversation Narrative Servant Funeral Formal More Knowledge Real Character Pedigree

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect.”

Knowledge Effects Conversation Endeavor

Book:Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats

Source: Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats

“Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.”

Thinking Matter Forget Knowledge Bears Conversation Fruit Consideration

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.”

Mind Different Facts Memories Knowledge Learning Habit Conversation Draws Train Meetings Cards Implications New Car Train Of Thought Meetings Of The Minds

Author:Theodore Zeldin

“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.”

Love Kind Secret Knowledge Learning Conversation Charm Liquor Like Love Insidious

Author:Seneca the Younger