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IGNORAMUS, n. A person unacquainted with certain kinds of knowledge familiar to yourself, and having certain other kinds that you know nothing about.

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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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Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.

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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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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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In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.

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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 live in a system of approximations. Every end is prospective of some other end, which is also temporary; a round and final success nowhere. We are encamped in nature, not domesticated.

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But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.

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It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation.

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

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The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

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Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

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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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Too much to know is to know nought but fame; And every godfather can give a name.

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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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The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

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The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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