"We hear and apprehend only what we already half know."
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"If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there."
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"We bless and curse ourselves."
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"What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse."
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"There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span."
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"What is chastity? How shall a man know if he is chaste? He shall not know it. We have heard of this virtue, but we know not what it is."
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"The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot."
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"Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things; now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth."
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"I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad base spreads over a village or two, which does not know it; neither does it know them, nor do I when I ascend it. I can see its general outline as plainly now in my mind as that of Wachusett. I do not invent in the least, but state exactly what I see. I find that I go up it when I am light-footed and earnest. It ever smokes like an altar with its sacrifice. I am not aware that a single villager frequents it or knows of it. I keep this mountain to ride instead of a horse."
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"No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times."
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"That is a pathetic inquiry among travelers and geographers after the site of ancient Troy. It is not near where they think it is.When a thing is decayed and gone, how indistinct must be the place it occupied!"
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"If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer."
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"We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies."
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"It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance."
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"He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing."
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"So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it."
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"The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!"
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"Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder."
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"What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors."
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"The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin."
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