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

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The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

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Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

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

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

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I have the mind of a fool, understanding nothing.

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The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.

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All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge.

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The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap

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The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

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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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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

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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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To know all things is not permitted.

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The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.

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Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

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

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