"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
-Robert Staughton Lynd
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"Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.“
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"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
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"There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because it is Christmas there are other people who want to strangle you simply because it is Christmas."
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"Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen."
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"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."
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"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
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"Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous."
-Plato
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"Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement."
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
-H. L. Mencken
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"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
-Nicolaus Copernicus
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"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."
-Jose Marti
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