Timeline for Exact meaning of the Gandalf quote, "He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."?
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| Mar 20, 2015 at 4:22 | comment | added | Vaibhav Garg | @ciechowoj- what pete is trying to hint at is that; --ironically-- contrary to the meaning of the quote itself; you have to break the quote in order to understand it. | |
| Mar 18, 2015 at 18:36 | comment | added | ciechowoj | @Pete You have to break it correctly. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 19:40 | comment | added | Pete Becker | In order to understand the quotation you have to break it into parts. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 16:22 | vote | accept | ciechowoj | ||
| Mar 15, 2015 at 16:08 | history | edited | Ghopper21 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 15, 2015 at 16:06 | comment | added | ciechowoj | Ok, now I understand. I have read this as "He that breaks a thing to find out / what it is has left the path of wisdom." initially. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 16:04 | comment | added | tchrist♦ | I think you have an extra is: should just be "to fully understand it" there without an is, which doesn’t parse. Or else you could write "in order to fully understand what it is", but I prefer the shorter version. | |
| Mar 15, 2015 at 16:03 | history | edited | Ghopper21 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 15, 2015 at 15:57 | history | answered | Ghopper21 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |