Knowledge
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We live by information, not by sight
True knowledge lies in knowing how to live
To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty
Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant
Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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