Parents are usually more careful to bestow

“Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
Category: knowledge
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It is that of increasing knowledge of

“It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact – hence changing general statements about it – and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.”

— Talcott Parsons

Author: Talcott Parsons
Category: knowledge
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