"Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows."

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

Wheeler, John Archibald on knowledge
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on knowledge
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"You don't know how much you know until you know how much you don't know."

Unknown on knowledge
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"Who knows most believes least."

Proverb on knowledge
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"Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything."

Pickering on knowledge   

"The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on knowledge
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"The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn."

Haskins, Caryl on knowledge
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"The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it."

Johnson, Samuel on knowledge   

"More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral."

Johnson, Samuel on knowledge   

"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds."

Kennedy, John F. on knowledge
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"He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that."

Mill, John Stuart on knowledge
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"Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge."

Miller, Henry on knowledge
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"Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do."

Mueller, Robert K. on knowledge
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure."

Bacon, Francis on gardening and gardens   

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"Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."

Bacon, Francis on home   

"Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper."

Bacon, Francis on hope
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"Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us."

Bacon, Francis on humankind
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"Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is."

Bacon, Francis on humor
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"As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time."

Bacon, Francis on innovation   

"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave."

Bacon, Francis on intelligence and intellectuals   

"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."

Bacon, Francis on justice
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"Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less."

Bacon, Francis on friends and friendship
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"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."

Bacon, Francis on forgiveness
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"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."

Rogers, Will on adversity
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"One ad is worth more to a paper than forty editorials."

Rogers, Will on advertising   

"Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't go up, don't buy it."

Rogers, Will on gambling   

"He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other."

Bacon, Francis on advice
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"Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."

Bacon, Francis on age and aging
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"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."

Bacon, Francis on desire
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"In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

Bacon, Francis on doubt
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"Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it."

Bacon, Francis on doubt   

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."

Bacon, Francis on fear
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"Knowledge is power."

Bacon, Francis on knowledge
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"Knowledge and human power are synonymous."

Bacon, Francis on knowledge
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"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."

Dunne, Finley Peter on motivation
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"The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here."

Dunne, Finley Peter on past
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"One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it."

Dunne, Finley Peter on poverty and the poor   

"Trust everybody, but cut the cards."

Dunne, Finley Peter on trust
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