What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

- Albert Einstein

It may have been possible in the past, for things to have happened in isolation, but from this time forth, the world must be seen as an organic whole, everything affects everything

Polibius

Knowing is not enough. We must apply

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Sir Richard Steele

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

George Orwell

I have not failed. Rather I have dscovered 10,000 ways that don't work!

Thomas Edison

Hierarchy adapts knowledge to the organization; a network adapts the organization to the knowledge.

George Siemens

The categories of human thought are never fixed in any one definite form; they are made, unmade and remade incessantly; they change with places and times.

Emile Durkheim