Books Quote by Paul Hendrickson

What makes literature interesting is that it does not survive its translation. The characters in a novel are made out of the sentences. That's…

— Jonathan Miller

The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.

— Julio Cortazar

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the…

— Leslie Jamison

Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.

— Ludwik Fleck

“Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of…

— Northrop Frye

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge

— Claude Bernard

It is easy in ministry or in life, to begin to rely on acquired knowledge instead of fresh knowledge revealed. We must maintain our…

— Gloria Copeland

Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I…

— Nelson Mandela

“Once acquired, knowledge feels like common sense.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

When speaking of a "body of knowledge" or of "the results of research," e.g., we tacitly assign the same cognitive status to inherited knowledge…

— Leo Strauss

Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men…

— Claude Bernard

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

— Jean Piaget