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"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
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"The truth is that few know the truth."
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"I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all."
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"You have this and this, soon it will come and this and you are still at this level of knowledge... so poor for you!"
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"If I know the end of a book or a film I want to know why it happen..."
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"The amount of books or films or series which are you going to watch doesn't matter as far as long you understand all of them and keep track of all them."
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"Books can kill you, while you are reading."
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"If you close your door to the world of books, the gates of the world of ignorance automatically opens and quickly pulls you inside!"
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"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."
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"There is a huge difference between thinking we know something and actually knowing something."
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"I am reading Henry James, and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber."
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"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
Knowledge
"The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand."
Accuracy
"The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
Error
"Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."
Error
"It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions."
End
"Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact."
Science
"Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness."
Cleverness
"The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but in their readiness to acknowledge these inevitable lapses."
Men
"Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science."
Money
"I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young."
History
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