Saturday, November 29, 2008

The investigation of the meaning of words...

"The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education." Antisthenes in Fragment (Greek philosopher of Athens, disciple of Socrates)

Quoted from A Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations. Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p. 16. See Amazon.com..

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1 comment:

nothing profound said...

Hadn't known of this book before. Since I'm a writer and devotee of quotations I'll have to check it out.