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All difficulties are easy when they are known.

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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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They assembled together and dedicated these as the first-fruits of their love to Apollo in his Delphic temple, inscribing there those maxims which are on every tongue- 'know thyselP and 'Nothing overmuch.'

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For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method.

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Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound, Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

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He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.

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The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

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In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?

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Our books approach very slowly the things we most wish to know.

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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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Stay in college, get the knowledge. And stay there until you're through. If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. Advice to a young person to continue his education.

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In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.

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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

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For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

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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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Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.

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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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In the medical profession a horse and carriage are more necessary than any scientific knowledge.

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It is the responsibility of scientists never to suppress knowledge, no matter how awkward that knowledge is, no matter how it may bother those in power; we are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible, and which are not.

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