The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco

"we are dwarfs ; but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they."

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"because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must of we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."

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"the good of a book lies in it being read. a book is made up of signs that speaks of other signs, which in turn speak of things. without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts, therefore it is dumb."

The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco