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Mark Twain
Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one
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Virgil
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts
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Joseph Addison
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing
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Albert Einstein
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there
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Albert Einstein
The faster you go, the shorter you are
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Albert Einstein
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be
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Albert Einstein
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree
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Marcus Cicero
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity
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Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
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Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force
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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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