“Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing that a tomato doesn’t belong in a fruit salad.” — Miles Kington
Quotations
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“Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.” — Will and Ariel Durant
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“It has been said, not truly, but with a possible approximation to truth, that in 1802 every hereditary monarch was insane.” — Walter Bagehot
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“When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.” — Lin-Chi
Misc
- Juneau, Alaska, is larger than Rhode Island.
- After reading Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, Byron said, “I wish he would explain his explanation.”
- If A + B + C = 180°, then tan A + tan B + tan C = (tan A)(tan B)(tan C).
- Five counties meet in the middle of Lake Okeechobee.
- “Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.” — George Sand
No one knows whether Andrew Jackson was born in North Carolina or South Carolina. The border hadn’t been surveyed well at the time.
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“All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called ‘guessing what was at the other side of the hill.'” — Duke of Wellington
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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” — Aristotle
“Education enables you to express assent or dissent in graduated terms.” — William Cory
“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.” — Robert Frost
“To change an opinion without a mental process is the mark of the uneducated.” — Geoffrey Madan
“To have doubted one’s own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.” — Charles F. Kettering
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“There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.” — Thomas Wilson
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“The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.” — Montesquieu