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"The list could surely go on, and there is nothing more wonderful than a list, instrument of wondrous hypotyposis."
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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."
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"I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed."
"If you want to use television to teach somebody, you must first teachthem how to use television."
"Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."
"I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it)."
"There, Master Niketas,' Baudolino said, 'when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the green honey. There is nothing better than imagining other worlds,' he said, 'to forget the painful one we live in. At least so I thought then. I hadn't yet realized that, imagining other worlds, you end up changing this one."
"I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom."
"In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames."
"The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret."
"I lacked the courage to investigate the weaknesses of the wicked, because I discovered they are the same as the weaknesses of the saintly."
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