“A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.”
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“Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.”
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“The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.”
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“So runs my dream, but what am I?An infant crying in the nightAn infant crying for the lightAnd with no language but a cry.”
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“Then why do you want to know?""Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.”
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“Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.”
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“I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.”
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“I also hold very strong personal convictions about censorship. I don't believe in forbidden knowledge.”
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“Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.”
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“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
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“The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.”
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“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.”
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“I don't pretend to know everything; I just only speak on matters I know I'll win.”
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“The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition.”
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“Foresight of phenomenon and power over them depend on knowledge of their sequences, and not upon any notion we may have formed respecting their origin or inmost nature.”
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