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“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.”— Khalil Gibran
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“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”— Henry Ford
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“Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.”— H. G. Wells
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“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”— Thomas J. Watson
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“Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.”— George Bernard Shaw
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“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”— Henry Ford
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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”— Plato
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“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.”— Lao Tzu
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“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”— Khalil Gibran
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“Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”— T. S. Eliot
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“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”— William Penn
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“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.”— Samuel Johnson
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“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”— Benjamin Franklin
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“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.”— Elbert Hubbard
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“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“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.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.”— Plutarch
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“Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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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.”— Samuel Johnson
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“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.”— Confucius
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“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”— Plato