From: bernie Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:15:08 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Edit page GreatQuotes X-Git-Url: https://codewiz.org/gitweb?p=wiki.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=522d9f16809e7dc9483581ab3f6c034f24b9cdfd Edit page GreatQuotes --- diff --git a/GreatQuotes b/GreatQuotes index 53f9108..e9f7a3a 100644 --- a/GreatQuotes +++ b/GreatQuotes @@ -42,13 +42,6 @@ the individual towards freedom. \\ == On Knowledge and Science == -"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\ -No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\ -The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\ -of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\ -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) - "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." \\ — [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela | Nelson Mandela]] @@ -57,7 +50,22 @@ That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such e — [[https://fs.blog/2015/02/albert-einstein-learning/ | Einstein to his son]] "Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play." \\ -— Plato +— [[http://perseus.uchicago.edu/perseus-cgi/citequery3.pl?dbname=GreekTexts&getid=1&query=Pl.%20Resp.%20537c | Plato]] + +"If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the \\ +creativity and invention that characterizes children before \\ +they are deformed by adult society." \\ +— [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Piaget | Jean Piaget]], pioneer of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism_(philosophy_of_education) | Constructivism]] + +"I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people. \\ +No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness... \\ +The tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part \\ +of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us \\ +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) + +"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\ +— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] “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. \\ @@ -67,10 +75,6 @@ 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 -"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." \\ -— [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates | Socrates]] - - == On Living a Good Life == "Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live." \\ @@ -97,6 +101,9 @@ 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. \\