"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions their reasons are always different."
-George Santayana
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"Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.“
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"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."
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"Wisdom comes by disillusionment."
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"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
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"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
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"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
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