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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Remarkable Incident of Dr. LanyonIn context
- Knowledge
The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.
Max Stirner1806–1856The Ego and Its Own (1844), Cambridge 1995 ed., pp. 61-62
- Youth
Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter XIVIn context
- Knowledge
- Science
Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter XIn context
- Knowledge
Liberal education is the ladder by which we try to ascend from mass democracy to democracy as originally meant.
Leo Strauss1899–1973Liberalism: Ancient and Modern (1968), “What is liberal education,” pp. 4-5
- Democracy
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Where the Mind Is Without Fear (1912), Gitanjali (1912)In context
- Freedom
- Knowledge
While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 198
- Knowledge
- Luck
Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 4
- Clever Jabs
- Knowledge
The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960Fooled by Randomness (2001)
- Facts
- Knowledge
While the romanticized ideal of universal public education resonates with the cognoscenti who oppose vouchers, poor urban families just want the best education for their children, who will certainly need it to function in our high-tech and advanced society.
Clarence Thomasborn 1948Zelman v. Simmons-Harris
In all existential knowledge both subject and object are transformed by the very act of knowing.
Paul Tillich1886–1965The Courage to Be (1952), p. 124
- Knowledge
A self which has become a matter of calculation and management has ceased to be a self. It has become a thing. You must participate in a self in order to know what it is.
Paul Tillich1886–1965The Courage to Be (1952), p. 124
- Knowledge
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
Leon Trotsky1879–1940Literature and Revolution (1924)
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain1835–1910
Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain1835–1910Mark Twain’s Notebook (1935), p. 346