#knowledge

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn! ↗

— Claudius Galenus

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Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing. ↗

— Ramakrishna

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The greatest tragedy that can befall a man is never to know who he really is. ↗

— James Carlos Blake

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I'm fat because I'm greedy, and if my mind is fat it's because I'm curious. ↗

— Stephen Fry

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I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

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The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement; the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge. ↗

— Thomas Cleary

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The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star. ↗

— Carl Sagan

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Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled. ↗

— Mikhail Naimy

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