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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
Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge.
George Washington1732–1799George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
- Education
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
- War & Peace
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
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
- Love
- Reading
I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)In context
- Education
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951On Certainty (1969), 378
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 64e
- Truth & Lies
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951The Blue Book (c. 1931–1935; published 1965), p. 45
- Philosophy
At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951On Certainty (1969), 253
- Faith
Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Philosophical Occasions 1912-1951 (1993), Ch. 7: Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough, p. 123