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american-novelist eminent figures opposite questions raised reality rhetoric
The reality has been the opposite of the rhetoric especially when questions have been raised about eminent figures in the establishment. Serge Lang
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Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. Thomas Berger
american-novelist art asking questions science source
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
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This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit. Earl Derr Biggers
american-novelist musicality point
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Rick Moody
american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
american-novelist babies dogs hates man
Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.
american-novelist college high portland school suburb
But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here. Katherine Dunn
american-novelist explore giving haunted notion outside responsibility second source structure
The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.
education couple winter
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much more of my time than I like. Meanwhile I hope that the second time this expenditure of time will be much less, otherwise I would never be able to reconcile myself to it, even practical (astronomical) work must give far more satisfaction than if one brings up to B a couple more mediocre heads which otherwise would have stopped at A. Carl Friedrich Gauss
education winter science
I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and the third lacks both preparation and ability. Such are the onera of a mathematical profession.
education teaching science
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his precious time.
education book men
Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.... I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind. Agnes Smedley
education brother children
It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother. Agnes Repplier
education teaching easy
The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
education language liberal-education
There is no liberal education for the under-languaged.
education healing grace
Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word. Alan K. Simpson
education men thinking
An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style.
knowledge men thinking
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control. Carlos Castaneda
knowledge men thinking
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
knowledge
We have no knowledge who they are, no affiliation.
knowledge relationship
We have no knowledge of who they are and who they represent, and we have no relationship to that organization in any way, shape, or form,
knowledge knowing hands
The necessity of knowing a little about a great many things is the most grievous burden of our day. It deprives us of leisure on the one hand, and of scholarship on the other.
knowledge learning charming
Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive when turned loose upon a defenseless and unerudite public.
knowledge men
Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge. Charles Wagner
knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge simplicity complicated
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.