Voltaire Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

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Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

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Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

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Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.

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Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder--but not the ladder.

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All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

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Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal? But coal has got environmental hazards to it, but there's-I'm convinced, and I know that we-technology can be developed so we can have zero-emissions coal-fired electricity plants.

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True words seem false.

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I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

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The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.

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Those who know are not learned. Those who are learned do not know.

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If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.

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Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.

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You must treat the days respectfully, you must be a day yourself, and not interrogate it like a college professor.

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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

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Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

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