What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.
You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.
There is nothing wrong with a 'know nothing' investor who realizes it. The problem is when you are a 'know nothing' investor but you think you know something.
Diversification is a protection against ignorance. It makes very little sense for those who know what they're doing.
My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands. - Alexander Graham Bell
It must be good to die in the knowledge that one has done some truthful work...and to know that, as a result, one will live on in the memory of at least a few and leave a good example for those who come after. - Vincent van Gogh
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.
The diameter of the earth is greater than the diameter of the moon and the diameter of the sun is greater than the diameter of the earth.
Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another. - William James
A knowledge of the interaction of your conscious and subconscious minds will enable you to transform your whole life. - Joseph Murphy
What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known! - Jules Verne
We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world. - Robert F. Kennedy Jr
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