Vicesimus Knox famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.
One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.
It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality.
Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.
All knowledge is valuable to a librarian.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.
You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.

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