Soon, in all parts of our country, in each neglected village, or new settlement, the Christian female teacher will quietly take he...r station, collecting the ignorant children around her, teaching them habits of neatness, order and thrift; opening the book of knowledge, inspiring the principles of morality, and awakening the hope of immortality. Soon her influence in the village will create a demand for new laborers, and then she will summon from among her friends at home, the nurse for the young and sick, the seamstress and the mantuamaker; and these will prove her auxiliaries in good moral influence, and in sabbath school training. And often as the result of these labors, the Church will arise, and the minister of Christ be summoned to fill up the complement of domestic, moral and religious blessing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused w...ith the tree of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis to rebuke a vicious taste which has crept into thousands besides herself,--of reading straight forwards, more in quest of the... adventures, than of the deep erudition and knowledge which a book of this cast, if read over as it should be, would infallibly impart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Dullness is but another name for tameness. It is the uncivilized free and wild... thinking in Hamlet and the Iliad, in all the scriptures and mythologies, not learned in the schools, that delights us. As the wild duck is more swift and beautiful than the tame, so is the wild--mallard--thought, which 'mid falling dews wings its way above the fens. A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself,--and not a taper lighted at the hearth-stone of the race, which pales before the light of common day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
UG [universal grammar] may be regarded as a characterization of the genetically determined language faculty. One may think of this... faculty as a 'language acquisition device,' an innate component of the human mind that yields a particular language through interaction with present experience, a device that converts experience into a system of knowledge attained: knowledge of one or another language.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"We must take things more cheerfully than they deserve; especially since we have for a long time taken them more seriously than th...ey deserve."MThus speak brave soldiers of knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After I discovered the real life of mothers bore little resemblance to the plot outlined in most of the books and articles I'd rea...d, I started relying on the expert advice of other mothers--especially those with sons a few years older than mine. This great body of knowledge is essentially an oral history, because anyone engaged in motherhood on a daily basis has no time to write an advice book about it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outside... our observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creature...s are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »