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"In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory."
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"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."
"In worthy teaching, all things are related."
"Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it."
"A sage is a good teacher, but an even greater learner."
"Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone."
"Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them."
"Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss."
"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands."
"Someone has to do it. It's all very well calling for eye of newt, but do you mean Common, Spotted or Great Crested? Which eye, anyway? Will tapioca do just as well? If we substitute egg white will the spell a) work b) fail or c) melt the bottom out of the cauldron? Goodie Whemper's curiosity about such things was huge and insatiable*.* Nearly insatiable. It was probably satiated in her last flight to test whether a broomstick could survive having its bristles pulled out one by one in mid-air. According to the small black raven she had trained as a flight recorder, the answer was almost certainly no."
"Mind of a loving heart is the fountain of knowledge."
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"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."
"Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself."
"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
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