X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=GreatQuotes;h=bc35c7fd28eb82e6735c9325322b47a29d792e6c;hp=71ca79700bf01c3bee2dcfa831227e90e414c5db;hb=b28c5ef2c03e3589759ddb38e78adf064c644037;hpb=49bdbde55902169f4f8e65f38a774c6b1dfd9220 diff --git a/GreatQuotes b/GreatQuotes index 71ca797..bc35c7f 100644 --- a/GreatQuotes +++ b/GreatQuotes @@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ if we leave the people in ignorance." \\ — [[http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/presidents/thomas-jefferson/letters-of-thomas-jefferson/jefl47.php | Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe]] (1786) -== On Knowledge == +== On Epistemology == + +
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"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\ — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] \\ @@ -77,8 +79,7 @@ if we leave the people in ignorance." \\ "You don’t get to say you’ve proved something if you haven’t explained it. \\ A proof is a social construct. If the community doesn’t understand it, \\ you haven’t done your job.” \\ -— [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy O’Neil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture - +— [[http://projectwordsworth.com/the-paradox-of-the-proof/ | Cathy O’Neil on Mochizuki's impenetrable proof of the ABC conjecture ]] “At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. \\ When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. \\ In fact, I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. \\ @@ -87,9 +88,10 @@ For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimula It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.” \\ — [[https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/01/einstein-imagination/ | Albert Einstein]], 1929 - == On Living a Good Life == +
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+ "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." \\ — [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] @@ -114,11 +116,5 @@ a reporter wondered aloud if this was disrespectful to the king. Gandhi replied Looking at a mass of goods for sale: "How many things I have no need for!" \\ — [[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Diogenes_La%C3%ABrtius | Socrates]]' take on Athens' rampant consumerism, circa 400 BC -Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. - — Marcus Tullius Cicero - ---- - -1) Thou shalt not excessively annoy others. \\ -2) Thou shalt not be too easily annoyed. \\ -— [[https://www.fidonet.org/policy4.txt | The FidoNet Policy 4.07, 1989]] +Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends. \\ +— Marcus Tullius Cicero