“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”
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“Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.”
“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.”
“Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.”
“Information is not knowledge.”
“He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.”
“I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.”
“When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.”
“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.”
“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”
“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”
“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”
“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”
“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”
“Knowledge is true opinion.”
“Doubt grows with knowledge.”
“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.”
“Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?”
“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”
“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”