“Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.”
1760s, A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)
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“Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?”
Aidan Chambers book Postcards from No Man's Land
Source: Postcards from No Man's Land
“Freedom is the flow of life/ It is to be part of it/ And to let life flow through you.”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (1957) Indian philosopher
Freedom: Foster It! p. 34.
Freedom: Foster it! (2004)
“[Knowledge assets are] stocks of knowledge through which different value added services flow.”
Max Boisot (1943–2011) British academic and educator
Source: Knowledge Assets, 1998, p. 3.; as cited in: Evans, M. M., and Natasha Ali. "Bridging knowledge management life cycle theory and practice." 2013.
“Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn,
And liquid amber drop from every thorn.”
Autumn, line 36.
Pastorals (1709)
“Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.”
Henry David Thoreau book Walking
Walking (June 1862)
“The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.”
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
As quoted in The New York Times (19 January 1962)
“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1940s, A History of Western Philosophy (1945)