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|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.'''<br />
|01 = '''I was brought up to believe that the only thing [[sense of life|worth doing]] was to add to the sum of [[Accuracy and precision|accurate]] [[information]] in the world.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Mead]] (1901 - 1978)</cite>
|02 = '''No man is wise enough by himself.'''
|02 = '''No man is [[wisdom|wise]] enough by himself.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Titus Maccius Plautus]] (254 BC - 184 BC), ''Miles Gloriosus''</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Titus Maccius Plautus]] (254 BC - 184 BC), ''Miles Gloriosus''</cite>
|03 = '''Share your [[knowledge]]. It's a way to achieve [[immortality]].'''<br />
|03 = '''Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.'''
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Jackson Browne]], ''Life's Little Instruction Book''</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Jackson Browne, ''Life's Little Instruction Book''</cite>
|04 = '''Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus [[knowledge]] itself is [[power]]).'''<br />
|04 = '''Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est (And thus knowledge itself is power).'''
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Francis Bacon|Sir Francis Bacon]] (1561 - 1626), ''Religious Meditations, Of Heresies''</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Francis Bacon|Sir Francis Bacon]] (1561 - 1626), ''Religious Meditations, Of Heresies''</cite>
|05 = '''[[Knowledge]] is the true [[organ (biology)|organ]] of [[sight]], not the [[eye]]s.'''<br />
|05 = '''You [[teaching|teach]] best what you most need to [[learning|learn]].'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— From the [[Panchatantra]] [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/440899/Panchatantra (Indian literature)]</cite>
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Bach<br /> </cite>
|06 = '''It is no good to try to stop [[knowledge]] from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.'''<br />
|06 = '''It is no good to try to stop [[knowledge]] from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Enrico Fermi]] (1901–1954)</cite>
|07 = '''The [[ink]] of the [[scholar|learned]] is equal in [[merit]] to the [[blood]] of the [[martyr]]s.'''<br />
|07 = '''There is only one good, [[knowledge]], and one evil, ignorance.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Louis de Bernières]] (b. 1954), ''Birds Without Wings''</cite>
|08 = '''There is only one good, [[knowledge]], and one evil, [[ignorance]].'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Socrates]] (469 BC - 399 BC), ''Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers''</cite>
|09 = '''[[Trust]] yourself. You [[knowledge|know]] more than you [[thought|think]] you do.'''<br />
|08 = '''Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Benjamin Spock|Dr. Benjamin Spock]] (1903–1998)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903–1998)</cite>
|10 = '''If [[knowledge]] can create [[problem]]s, it is not through [[ignorance]] that we can solve them.'''<br />
|09 = '''Study the past if you would divine the future.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Isaac Asimov]] (1920–1992)</cite>
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
|11 = '''A little [[knowledge]] that acts is worth [[infinity|infinitely]] more than much knowledge that is idle.'''<br />
|10 = '''If you have [[knowledge]], let others light their [[candle]]s in it.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Khalil Gibran]] (1883–1931)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)</cite>
|12 = '''If you have [[knowledge]], let others light their [[candle]]s in it.'''<br />
|11 = '''Education is not filling a [[bucket]] but lighting a [[fire]].'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Fuller]] (1810–1850)</cite>
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Butler Yeats]]<br /></cite>
|13 = '''A [[word]] after a word after a word is [[power]].'''<br />
|12 = '''Writing is one of the most effective ways to develop thinking.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Margaret Atwood]] (1939-)</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Syrene Forsman, ''Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think''</cite>
|14 = '''[[Writing]] is one of the most [[effectiveness|effective]] ways to [[learning|develop]] [[thinking]].'''<br />
|13 = '''Do not [[writing|write]] merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Syrene Forsman]], ''Writing to Learn Means Learning to Think''</cite>
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)</cite>
|15 = '''[[Writing]], the [[pain]]ful process of [[transformation|transforming]] [[three-dimensional]], [[parallel processing|parallel-processed]] [[experience]] into [[two-dimensional]], [[linear]] [[narrative]].'''<br />
|14 = '''Man's [[mind]] stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.'''<br />
      <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://tinyurl.com/nglnfo Susan Hockfield] (neuroscientist)</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894)</cite>
|16 = '''Do not [[writing|write]] merely to be [[understanding|understood]]. Write so you cannot possibly be [[misunderstanding|misunderstood]].'''<br />
|15 = '''He who keeps on reviewing his old [[knowledge]] and acquiring new knowledge may become a [[teacher]] of others.'''<br />
       <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] (1850–1894)</cite>
|17 = '''Man's [[mind]] stretched to a new [[idea]] never goes back to its original dimensions.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Oliver Wendell Holmes]] (1809–1894)</cite>
|18 = '''He who keeps on reviewing his old [[knowledge]] and acquiring new knowledge may become a [[teacher]] of others.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]</cite>
|19 = '''All good [[writing]] is [[swimming]] [[under water]] and [[apnea|holding your breath]].'''<br />
|16 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] (1896–1940), U.S. author. Letter (undated) to his daughter [[Frances Scott Fitzgerald]]. The Crack-Up, ed. [[Edmund Wilson]] (1945). [http://poemhunter.com/quotations/swimming/ Source.] </cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br />
|20 = '''Who dares to [[teaching|teach]] must never cease to [[learning|learn]].'''<br />
|17 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and opinion; the former begets [[knowledge]], the latter ignorance.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Cotton Dana]] (1856–1929), American librarian and museum director.</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite>
|21 = '''[[Knowledge]] is like [[money]]: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.'''<br />
|18 = '''[[Knowledge]] is like [[money]]: To be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://www.louislamour.com Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), U.S. author]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Louis L'Amour (1908–1988), U.S. author</cite>
|22 = '''[[Ignorance]] is the [[curse]] of [[God]], [[knowledge]] the [[wing]] wherewith we [[flight|fly]] to [[heaven]].'''<br />
|19 = '''Nothing you do is important, but it is very important that you do it.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Shakespeare]] (1564–1616), Lord Saye, in Henry VI, Part 2, act</cite>
|23 = '''Nothing you [[action|do]] is [[importance|important]], but it is very important that you do it.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mahatma Gandhi]]</cite>
|24 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a [[windowpane]].'''<br />
|20 = '''Good [[prose]] is like a windowpane.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Orwell]] (1903–1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write'']</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— George Orwell (1903–1950) [http://www.netcharles.com/orwell/essays/whyiwrite.htm ''Why I Write'']</cite>
|25 = '''That which we [[knowledge|know]] is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br />
|21 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Pierre-Simon de Laplace]] (1749–1827), French [[physicist]] and [[mathematician]], systematizer and elaborator of [[probability theory]]</cite>
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Anonymous</cite>
|26 = '''I've [[learning|learned]] very early the difference between [[knowledge|knowing]] the name of something and knowing something.'''<br />
|22 = '''Truth . . . never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him who brought her forth.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Milton]]</cite>
|23 = '''If you want to master something, teach it.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Feynman</cite>
|24 = '''The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny …”'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Anonymous, attributed to [[Isaac Asimov]]</cite>
|25 = '''That which we know is a little thing; that which we do not know is immense. '''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Pierre-Simon de Laplace (1749–1827)</cite>
|26 = '''I've learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American [[physicist]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American [[physicist]]</cite>
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|27 = '''Whereof one cannot [[speech|speak]], thereof one must be [[silence|silent]].'''<br />
|27 = '''The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Frank Herbert, American [[science fiction]] author (1920 - 1986)<br /> </cite>
|28 = '''[[Word]]s are only [[postage stamp]]s delivering the object for you to unwrap.'''<br />
|28 = '''[[Word]]s are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Bernard Shaw]] </cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[George Bernard Shaw]] </cite>
|29 = '''The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.'''<br />
|29 = '''The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American physicist</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Feynman]] (1918–1988), American physicist</cite>
|30 = '''The more I [[desire|want]] to get something [[action|done]], the less I call it [[work]].'''<br />
|30 = '''The more I want to get something done, the less I call it [[work]].'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Bach</cite>
|31 = '''The problem is not how to increase an already large stock of [[information]] but how to increase people’s ability to find [[usefulness|useful]] information, to [[judgement|judge]] what is [[reliability|reliable]] and [[relevance|relevant]] for them at that moment, to make sense of the sometimes [[conflict]]ing information with which they are faced, and then to engage in [[communication]] and [[discussion]] when [[appropriateness|appropriate]].'''<br />
|31 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/document_library/pdf_06/the-masis-report_en.pdf MASIS report] of the [[European Commission]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''</cite>
|32 = '''It is the mark of an [[education|educated]] [[mind]] to be able to entertain a [[thought]] without accepting it.'''<br />
|32 = '''It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]<br /></cite>
|33 = '''[[Knowledge]] is not simply another [[commodity]]. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by [[diffusion]] and grows by [[dispersion]].'''<br />
|33 = '''…it is what you learn by [[writing]] that gives the work its pull.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Daniel Boorstin]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— David McCullough, from ''Mornings on Horseback''<br /></cite>
|34 = '''The only source of [[knowledge]] is [[experience]].'''<br />
|34 = '''The only source of [[knowledge]] is experience.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite>
|35 = '''All the [[world]] is a [[laboratory]] to the inquiring [[mind]].'''<br />
|35 = '''To study the greatest of the scholars of the past is to enjoy intercourse with superior minds.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Martin H. Fischer]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
|36 = '''[[Knowledge]] is a process of [[pile|piling]] up [[fact]]s; [[wisdom]] lies in their [[simplification]].'''<br />
|36 = '''Writing is easy.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Martin H. Fischer]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Red Smith</cite>
|37 = '''Real [[knowledge]] is to know the extent of one's [[ignorance]].'''<br />
|37 = '''Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
|38 = '''[[Words]] constitute the ultimate [[texture]] and [[stuff]] of our [[morale|moral being]], since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the [[symbolism]]s whereby we express ourselves into existence.'''<br />
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    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Iris Murdoch]]<br /></cite>
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|39 = '''You [[teaching|teach]] best what you most need to [[learning|learn]].'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Richard Bach]]<br /> </cite>
|40 = '''The beginning of [[knowledge]] is the [[discovery]] of something we do not [[understanding|understand]].'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Frank Herbert]], American [[science fiction]] author (1920 - 1986)<br /> </cite>
|41 = '''Education is not filling a [[bucket]] but lighting a [[fire]].'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[William Butler Yeats]]<br /></cite>
|42 = '''…it is what you learn by [[writing]] that gives the work its pull.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[David McCullough]], from ''Mornings on Horseback''<br /></cite>
|43 = '''Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Wislawa Szymborska]]<br />
|44 = '''There are in fact two things, [[science]] and [[opinion]]; the former begets [[knowledge]], the later [[ignorance]].'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Hippocrates]]''<br /></cite>
|45 = '''Well begun is half done.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Aristotle]]''<br /></cite>
|46 = '''Every minute of every day, millions of curious [[ape]]s click billions of [[hyperlink|links]], each tracing their own miniature voyages of [[discovery]].'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Martin Robbins]] in a [http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/sep/28/science-journalism-spoof blog post] for [[The Guardian]]''<br /></cite>
|47 = '''Study the past if you would divine the [[future]].'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]]<br /></cite>
|48 = '''What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Henry David Thoreau]]''<br />
|49 = '''Quality is what we live for.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Brian Goodwin]], How the Leopard Changed Its Spots, Preface, 2001''<br />
|50 = '''Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">—[[John Steinbeck]]<br />
|51 = '''Forget your generalized audience. In the first place, the nameless, faceless audience will scare you to death and in the second place, unlike the theater, it doesn't exist. In writing, your audience is one single reader. I have found that sometimes it helps to pick out one person—a real person you know, or an imagined person and write to that one.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Steinbeck]]<br/>
|52 = '''It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Mark Twain]]''<br />
|53 = '''The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first our own increase of knowledge; secondly to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Locke]]''<br />
|54 = '''[the reader] must write the text as much as possible in order to avoid being written by the text's ideology.'''
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Phillipe Soller, novelist<br />
|55 = '''We do but learn today what our better advanced judgements will unteach tomorrow.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Sir Thomas Browne]]<br />
|56 = '''Anything is a legitimate area of investigation.'''
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
|57 = '''Truth . . . never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him who brought her forth.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[John Milton]]<br />
|58 = '''Push yourself to the limit as often as possible.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
|59 = '''Potential counts for nothing until it’s realized.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
|60 = '''A little knowledge can go a long way.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
|61 = '''A sincere effort is all you can ask.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
|62 = '''The exact measure of one’s understanding of anything is rather the extent to which one can couch one’s understanding of it in words; and the measure of one’s understanding of someone else’s explanation is one’s ability to explain his explanation in one’s own terms. Accordingly, one of the most efficacious ways to develop one’s understanding of anything is to try to explain it to someone else; teaching does return a reward. For explaining one’s experience forces one to give narrative form to it; and as the words come and the sentences flow, the information is organized and systematized: the facts “fall into place.”'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Leslie Dewart<br />
|63 = '''Writing is easy.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Red Smith]]</cite>
|64 ='''The writer tries to move stuff from his brain into the brains of his readers, using words as his only tools. Good writing doesn't just transport ideas—it gives the reader a visceral experience, as if the writer is reaching inside his skull, grabbing fistfuls of neurons, twisting them, petting them, and sometimes crushing them.'''<br />
    <cite style="font:size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Gunnar Olsson<br/>
|65 = "To understand is to be immersed in language, to live in the conjunction between one expression and another.  At least in that context it is literally true that in the beginning is the word. . . .without names there may well be sweet- and salt-water oceans, but neither gods nor rocks, neither knowledge nor understanding."<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://www.quora.com/Writing/What-should-everyone-know-about-writing Marcus Geduld]</cite>
|66 = '''Mais il ne faut pas toujours tellement épuiser un sujet, qu'on ne laisse rien à faire au lecteur.  Il ne s'agit pas de faire lire, mais de faire penser. (One should not so exhaust a subject as to leave the reader nothing to do.  The point is not in being read but in provoking thought).'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Montesquieu]]</cite>
|67 = '''To study the greatest of the scholars of the past is to enjoy intercourse with superior minds.'''<br />
    <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[A.E. Housman]]</cite>
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