"The improvement of the understanding is for two ends: first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others."
— Knowledge

January 1, 1970

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John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study. Appendix B. Quote reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.