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“I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.”
“A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century.”
“When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.”
“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.”
“Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local know...”
“As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.”
“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”
“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”
“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
“Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.”
“People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on 'The Daily Show'... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.”
“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
“Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
“Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].”
“Truth ain't be in secret site to be found.It lies within certain levels of understanding and knowledge.”
“Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.”
“Wenn du weißt, behaupte, dass du es weißt. Und wenn du etwas nicht weißt, gib zu, dass du es nicht weißt. Das ist Wissen.”
“I see at last that all the knowledgeI wrung from the darkness—that the darkness flung me—Is worthless as ignorance: nothing comes from nothing,The darkness from the darkness. Pain comes from the da...”
