The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is profoundly ignorant.
Shaftesbury
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The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Thales
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The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.
Colton
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There are things on heaven and earth, Horatio, Man was not meant to know.
Hamlet
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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount first principles, and to take nobody's word about them.
Bolingbroke
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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
Buddha
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Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.
Mark B. Cohen
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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning ... and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Seneca
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Jean Rostand
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To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Olin Miller
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The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
Lin Yutang
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If a man's faith is unstable and his peace of mind troubled, his knowledge will not be perfect..
Dhammapada
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Knowledge without religion will no more sanctify than painted fire will burn, or the sight of water cleanse.
John A. O'Brien
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