John Locke
View AuthorReading provides the mind with only materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read our own.
John Locke
View AuthorReading provides the mind with important material of knowledge. And it allows us to think about how to make what we read become our own.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
View AuthorA thorn of experience is worth more than a forest of warnings.
Saint Teresa of Jesus
View AuthorThe untilled land will bear thorns and thistles even though it may be fertile; so is the understanding of man.
José Saramago
View AuthorWords are just stones placed across the river's current. If they are there, it is so that we can reach the other bank, the other bank is what matters.
José Saramago
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José Saramago
View AuthorHistory is written from the point of view of the victors; the vanquished have never written history. It is inevitably written from a male point of view.
José Saramago
View AuthorUltimately, it must be acknowledged that history is not selective; it is also discriminatory, taking from life what interests it as socially accepted material as historical and disregarding the rest, precisely where the true explanation of the facts, of things, of the damn reality could perhaps be found. Truly I tell you, truly I say that it is better to be a novelist, a fiction writer, a liar.
Jean Paul Sartre
View AuthorEven the past can be modified; historians never stop proving it.
Jean Paul Sartre
View AuthorAll means are good when they are effective.