The truth of the matter is that no one can teach you how to think; but what they can do is teach you how to think for yourself.
~ Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic
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The truth of the matter is that no one can teach you how to think; but what they can do is teach you how to think for yourself.
~ Caitlin Flanagan via The Atlantic
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When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
~ John Ruskin
I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.
~ Emmanuel Radnitzky
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To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.
~ Auguste Comte
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
~ A. J. Liebling
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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
~ Niels Bohr
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Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language. Use the word not as a means of denial or in antithesis, never as a means of evasion.
~ William Strunk, Jr.
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The imagination is not a talent of some people but is the health of everyone.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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It seems plain and self-evident, yet it needs to be said: the isolated knowledge obtained by a group of specialists in a narrow field has in itself no value whatsoever, but only in its synthesis with all the rest of knowledge and only inasmuch as it really contributes in this synthesis toward answering the demand, “Who are we?”
~ Erwin Schrödinger
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