WIST Quotations

Bear, Elizabeth -- Bone and Jewel Creatures, ch. 2 [The Artificer] (2010)

Dave — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:26:42 +0000

The old have nothing to pace themselves for. This is the final sprint. Run. Run. See how far you can get before you fall.

Elizabeth Bear (b. 1971) American author [pseud. for Sarah Bear Elizabeth Wishnevsky]
Bone and Jewel Creatures, ch. 2 [The Artificer] (2010)
(Source)

Bible, Vol. 1. Old Testament -- Book 27. Daniel 12: 4 (Dan 12:4) [tr. KJV (1611)]

Dave — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 21:57:41 +0000

Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

יְשֹׁטְט֥וּ רַבִּ֖ים וְתִרְבֶּ֥ה הַדָּֽעַת׃

The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
Book 27. Daniel 12: 4 (Dan 12:4) [tr. KJV (1611)]
(Source)

The Old Greek version of the Septuagint uses a word that translated as "evil" or "wickedness" or "injustice". Later versions, particularly Theodotion's favored translation, used "knowledge" (Hebrew הַדָּֽעַת or Greek γνῶσις) [notes 1, 2, 3, 4].

Quoted by Francis Bacon as an epigraph on the frontispiece of his Instauratio Magna [The Great Instauration] (1620), in both English (as the King James Version) and Latin: "Multi pertransibunt & augebitur scientia."

(Source (Hebrew)). Other translations:

Many will wander this way and that, and wickedness will go on increasing.
[JB (1966)]

Meanwhile, many people will waste their efforts trying to understand what is happening.
[GNT (1976)]

Many will roam about, this way and that, and wickedness will continue to increase.
[NJB (1985)]

Many will stray far, but knowledge will increase.
[CEB (2011)]

Many shall be running back and forth, and evil shall increase.
[NRSV (2021 ed.)]

Many will range far and wide and knowledge will increase.
[RJPS (2023 ed.)]

Thurber, James -- “The Shore and the Sea,”, Moral, Further Fables for Our Time (1956)

Dave — Fri, 15 Oct 2021 20:54:43 +0000

All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.

James Thurber (1894–1961) American humorist, cartoonist, writer
“The Shore and the Sea,”, Moral, Further Fables for Our Time (1956)