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“We should live and learn but by the time we've learned it's too late to live.”
“All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affec...”
“It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble it's what we know that ain't so.”
“In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.”
“To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.”
“For knowledge too is itself a power.”
“The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance.”
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.”
“He who knows others is learned He who knows himself is wise.”
“It ain't the things you don't know what gets you into trouble it's the things you know for sure what ain't so.”
“Then I began to think that it is very true which is commonly said that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.”
“We know what we are but know not what we may be.”
“And seeing ignorance is the curse of God Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”
“As for me all I know is that I know nothing.”
“The less you knew, the fewer monsters you’d attract,”