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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

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We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

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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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We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

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No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.

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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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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

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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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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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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

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Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.

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The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

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The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.

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Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

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No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes.

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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

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Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

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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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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.

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