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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” 

― Socrates

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.” 

― Stephen Hawking

“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.” 

― Confucius

“The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ” 

― Baba Ram Das

“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.” 

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“You can only be afraid of what you think you know.” 

― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.” 

― Isaac Newton

“Do not repeat after me words that you do not understand. Do not merely put on a mask of my ideas, for it will be an illusion and you will thereby deceive yourself.” 

― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless.” 

― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.” 

― Issac Asimov

“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.” 

― Howard Nemerov

“Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.” 

― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.” 

― Abraham Lincoln

“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” 

― John Archibald Wheeler

“Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one” 

― Lord Chesterfield

“Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.” 

― Horace Mann

“[...] where ignorance is bliss,

'Tis folly to be wise.” 

― Thomas Gray

“To be agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.” 

― Talleyrand

“You don’t know anything, but I know even less.” 

― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.” 

― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost

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