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History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Slapstick (1976), Ch. 48
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Cat’s Cradle (1963), Chapter 124: Frank’s Ant Farm
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Cat’s Cradle (1963), Chapter 18
- Knowledge
High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Introduction to Our Time Is Now: Notes From the High School Underground, John Birmingham, ed. (1970)
- America
We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Earl Warren1891–1974Writing for the court, Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
- Race
Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
George Washington1732–1799George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
- Knowledge
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster1782–1852
It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college. And yet there are those who love it!
Daniel Webster1782–1852Oral argument before the Supreme Court of the United States, March 10, 1818, in Dartmouth College v. Woodward, 17 U.S. 518 (1918)
Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.
Ai Weiweiborn 1957Life’s Work: Ai Weiwei, 2012
- Art
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called “guessing what was at the other side of the hill.”
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769–1852Remark to John Wilson Croker (4 September 1852), in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers
- Knowledge
- War & Peace
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe… Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Outline of History (1920), Ch. 41
- History
We do not want dictators, we do not want oligarchic parties or class rule, we want a widespread world intelligence conscious of itself.
H. G. Wells1866–1946World Brain (1938), Preface, p. xvi
- Government
- Knowledge
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Thinking
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
John Wesley1703–1791Letter to Joseph Benson (7 November 1768); published in The Letters of John Wesley (1915) edited by George Eayrs
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)