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“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”

“Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.”

Way Soul Sometimes Hard Feelings Wisdom Seems Certain Time Strong Change Ability Known Knowledge Strength Capable Extremes Cruelty Length Strong Feeling

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“It is what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.”

World Hard Moving Dark Knowledge Forever Clear Imagine Sea Cold Mouths Historical Breasts Salt Symbolism

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge.”

Littles Long Hard Form Speak Language Easy Knowledge Mystery Ignorance Speech Abuse Mysterious Height Vague Mistaken Speculation Prescriptions Hindrance True Knowledge Deep Learning

Author:John Locke

“To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson.”

World May Important Hard Realizing Deals Knowledge Learning Lessons Demand Entitled Hard Lessons

Author:Bruce Catton

“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”

Knows Hard Lying Knowledge Too Much Philosophical

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.”

Hard Effort Education Knowledge Hard Work Nuisance

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example, logic-based systems are very precise, but they make it hard to do reasoning with analogies. Similarly, statistical systems are useful for making predictions, but do not serve well to represent the reasons why those predictions are sometimes correct.”

Way Wells Sometimes Hard Reason Form Knowledge Example Particular Expression Logic Best Way Limitation Reason Why Reasoning Precise Predictions Analogies

Author:Marvin Minsky

“The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them.”

Mind Doe Ideas Hard Hands Knowledge Shapes Stores Doctrine Coins Sharing Knowledge

Book:Man and Society: A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx... John Plamenatz....

Source: Man and Society: A Critical Examination of Some Important Social and Political Theories from Machiavelli to Marx... John Plamenatz....

“I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company. I tell my students to try to know molecules, so well that when they have some question involving molecules, they can ask themselves, What would I do if I were that molecule? I tell them, Try to feel like a molecule; and if you work hard, who knows? Some day you may get to feel like a big molecule!”

Ifs Knows Feels Trying Wells May Hard Bigs Science Asks Company Knowledge Students Hard Work Involving Molecules Good Company

Author:George Wald

“An athlete gains so much knowledge by just participating in a sport. Focus, discipline, hard work, goal setting and, of course, the thrill of finally achieving your goals. These are all lessons in life.”

“We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have progressed enough to explain ourselves in these mechanistic terms...the result might be hard to accept.”

Hard Enough Might Science Term Levels Results Accepting Knowledge Genes Compelled Genetics Neurons

Author:E. O. Wilson

“It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance.”

Ifs Hard Reality Science Knowledge Knowing Ignorance Details Ignorant Hard Things Being Ignorant

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“Learn the leading precognita of all things-no need to turn over leaf by leaf, but grasp the trunk hard and you will shake all the branches. Advice cherished by Samuel Johnson that that, if one is to master any subject, one must first discover its general principles.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Hard Turns Principles Knowledge Advice Subjects Masters All Things Branches Shakes Over It Leafs Johnson Trunks

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.”

People Want Hard Facts Science Fun Knowledge Knowing Analyzing

Author:Jesse L. Greenstein

“It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives.”

May Hard Enough Science Knowledge Draws Curiosity Conclusion Privacy Genes Traits Devoted

Book:The Lives to Come

Source: The Lives to Come

“Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.”

Knows Hard Knowledge Imagine

Book:Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

Source: Made to Stick: Why some ideas take hold and others come unstuck

“We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.”

Love Kind Hard Facts Hate Black White Knowledge Seeing Judgment Reservations Black Or White Judgment Of Others

Author:Eric Hoffer

“We are all concerned about the future of American education. But as I tell my students, you do not enter the future - you create the future. The future is created through hard work.”

Hard Education Knowledge Students Hard Work Concerned Logic Mathematics Math American Education

Author:Jaime Escalante

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