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Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.

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True words are not pleasing. Pleasing words are not true.

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CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

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I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other.

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Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

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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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Know what you do not know.

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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

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He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

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The difference between the actual and the ideal force of man is happily figured in by the schoolmen, in saying, that the knowledgeof man is an evening knowledge, vespertina cognitio, but that of God is a morning knowledge, matutina cognitio.

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There is nothing higher than reason.

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True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become.

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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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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.

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All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten anything, I found I did not.

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Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

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Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

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"I should have more faith," he said; "I ought to know by this time that when a fact appears opposed to a long train of deductions it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation."

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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