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Steven Runciman


Faced by the mountainous heap of the minutiae of knowledge and awed by the watchful severity of his colleagues, the modern historian too often takes refuge in learned articles or narrowly specialized dissertations, small fortresses that are easy to defend from attack.

Socrates


I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know.

Mickey Spillane


If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

Hugh Elliott, Standing Room Only weblog, 05-01-04


If there�s one thing I know it�s God does love a good joke.

Christina Rossetti


Silence is more musical than any song.

Henry Peter Brougham


Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

More Quotes

Sugar prices rise amid global cues

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:45:00 GMT
Economic Times - Following were the quotations per quintal (in Rs): Sugar ready M-30 1525-1625 and S-30 1515-1610. Mill delivery M-30 1320-1500 and S-30 1310-1490. Sugar mill gate prices (excluding duty)

Quotes of the week (BBC News)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:24:48 GMT
Kevin Keegan breezes back in to Newcastle, plus top chants

Quotes from Sir Edmund's funeral

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:24:00 GMT
New Zealand Herald - "In 1985 I was fortunate enough to be able to organise and lead a trip to the North Pole that included Sir Edmund Hillary along with Neil Armstrong, Steve Fossett, and Peter Hillary among others. One ...

Enlighten

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:10:00 +0000
Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility. - George Orwell
Sexual enlightenment is justified insofar as girls cannot learn too soon how children do not come into the world. - Karl Kraus
In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. ...]

Quotes from Sir Edmund Hillary's funeral (NZPA via Yahoo!Xtra News)

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:57:24 GMT
Quotes from today's funeral service for Sir Edmund Hillary.

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