Knowledge

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge
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
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine
No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion
Knowledge is our ultimate good
And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it
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