"The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt."
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"True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."
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"When knowledge is scant or conflicting, folklore takes over."
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"Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds."
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"To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge."
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"The society based on production is only productive, not creative."
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"It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know."
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"Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science."
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"I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know."
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"Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it."
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"The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing."
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"Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast."
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"Sharpen your interest in two major subjects: life and people. You will only gather information from a source if you are interested in it."
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"Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge."
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"The basic economic resource - the means of production - is no longer capital, nor natural resources, nor labor. It is and will be knowledge."
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"The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do."
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"The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance."
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"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down."
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"It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle."
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"The sage is not ill, because he sees illness as illness."
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