Voltaire Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

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

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

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Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

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The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

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You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

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Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

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If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others.

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To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge. Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves from such delusion. The intelligent people are not deluded, because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance, and thereby have genuine knowledge.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Knowledge Quotes

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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Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

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Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it.

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Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

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Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

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Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Men Quotes

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

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In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.

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If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

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Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

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