"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
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"Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes."
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"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all."
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"Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know."
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"I know what I do not know."
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"Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes."
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"Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance."
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"Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training."
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"Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve."
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"President Reagan didn't always know what he knew."
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"Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity."
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"Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets."
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"I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing."
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"To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, This is a noble insight. To regard our ignorance as knowledge, This is mental sickness. Only when we are sick of the sickness Shall we cease to be sick. The Sage is not sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health."
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"My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me."
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"Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long."
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"Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors."
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"He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment."
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"For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive to discredit what they do excel in. This is why there is chaos."
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"It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously."
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