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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. ”
A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows. ”
Italy advocates the adoption of a legal instrument on cultural diversity, guaranteeing every country the protection of its own historical identity and the uniqueness of its physical and intangible cultural heritage. ”
I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt. ”
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. ”
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ”
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ”
The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it. ”
In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far. ”
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal. ”