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Plato
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant
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Plato
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind
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Plato
Knowledge is true opinion
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Plato
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom
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Bertrand Russell
Thinking you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone
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Bertrand Russell
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge
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Thomas Fuller
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it
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Lord Byron
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life
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Benjamin Franklin
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest
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Benjamin Franklin
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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