Quotes - Marissa (maribelle121) Showing 1-16 of 16

#1

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#2

“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
― Alexander Pope

tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-einstein, misquote, misquoted

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#3

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
― Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: knowledge, wisdom

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#4

“It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

tags: knowledge

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#5

“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, The Descent of Man

tags: certainty, ignorance, knowledge, open-mindedness, science, willful-ignorance

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#6

“All men by nature desire to know.”
― Aristotle, Metaphysics

tags: knowledge, philosophy

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#7

“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: belief, firm, ignorance, intensity, knowledge

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#8

“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.”
― Hippocrates

tags: ignorance, knowledge, opinion, science

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#9

“Alas, how terrible is wisdom
when it brings no profit to the man that's wise!
This I knew well, but had forgotten it,
else I would not have come here.”
― Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

tags: knowledge

139 likes

#10

“Timendi causa est nescire -
Ignorance is the cause of fear.”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Natural Questions

tags: fear, ignorance, knowledge, life

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#11

“Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: knowledge

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#12

“Knowledge is the food of the soul.”
― Plato

tags: food, knowledge, soul

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#13

“I only know that I know nothing”
― Socrates

tags: creative-thinking, intellect, knowledge, philosophy, wisdom

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#14

“Ideas are the source of all things”
― Plato