“The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn
When teachers themselves are taught to learn.”
Bertolt Brecht book Life of Galileo
Scene 6
Life of Galileo (1939)
“My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid.”
Comparing his dueling days with commando tactics, as quoted in Skorzeny (1972) by Charles Whiting, p. 17.
Context: My knowledge of pain, learned with the sabre, taught me not to be afraid. And just as in dueling when you must concentrate on your enemy's cheek, so, too, in war. You cannot waste time on feinting and sidestepping. You must decide on your target and go in.
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Yanni (1954) Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer
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June Jordan (1936–2002) Poet, essayist, playwright, feminist and bisexual activist
"Life After Lebanon" (1984), later published in On Call : Political Essays (1985), and Some of Us Did Not Die : New and Selected Essays of June Jordan (2002)
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) American science fiction and fantasy writer
"Sun of Helioscope", in Castle of the Otter (1982), Reprinted in Gene Wolfe, Castle of Days (1992)
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“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
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Variant: I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.
Source: Little Women (1868)
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Source: Siddhartha (1922), p. 29
Variant translation: I am beginning to believe that this knowledge has no worse enemy than the desire to know learning.
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Source: A Walk to Remember
Chester Barnard book The Functions of the Executive
Source: The Functions of the Executive (1938), p. 31