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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.
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Socrates (BC 469-BC 399) Greek philosopher of Athens
''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
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John Abbott (1821-1893) Canadian lawyer and statesman.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
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Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British politician.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) British writer.
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
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John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Thirty-fifth President of the USA
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.
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Mark Twain (1835-1910) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer.
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
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Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist.
The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.
Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.
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Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.
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