WIST Quotations Has Moved!Oct 15, 2025

A quotation from Montaigne

Every man calls barbarous anything he is not accustomed to.
 
[Chacun appelle barbarie, ce qui n’est pas de son usage.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 30 (1.30), “Of Cannibals [Des Cannibales]” (1578) [tr. Screech (1987), 1.31]

More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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Studying how people can study in an efficient way under lab conditions, it has been found that on the one hand it is important that connections can be made to familiar information. On the other hand, it can help learning when it is done in an unfamiliar environment, or a familiar environment with unfamiliar elements. See http://www.neat-news.com/2025/04/85.php. #learning #familiarity #unfamiliarity
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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Feb 3, 2025

A quotation from Goethe

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist

Sprüche in Prosa: Maximen und Reflexionen [Proverbs in Prose: Maxims and Reflections] (1833) [tr. Saunders (1893)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/goethe-johann/1662/

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Sprüche in Prosa: Maximen und Reflexionen [Proverbs in Prose: Maxims and Reflections] (1833) [tr. Saunders (1893)] - Goethe, Johann von | WIST Quotations

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action. Goethe's use of this phrase comes up twice in the Maxims and Reflections. Alternate translations: From Art and Antiquity, Vol. 5, #3, Individual Points (1826): Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit. (Source (German)) Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in…

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