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    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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    Socrates
    “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
    ― Socrates
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
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    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
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    Dan Brown
    “Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
    tags: knowledge
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: communication, foolishness, knowledge, sharing, teaching, wisdom
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    Anaïs Nin
    “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: knowledge, mystery, sense-of-wonder, spirituality
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Inventory:

    "Four be the things I am wiser to know:
    Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
    Four be the things I'd been better without:
    Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
    Three be the things I shall never attain:
    Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
    Three be the things I shall have till I die:
    Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker
    tags: champagne, contentment, curiosity, doubt, envy, foes, friends, hope, idleness, inventory, knowledge, laughter, life, love, sorrow, sufficienty, superfluity, unattainable, values, wisdom
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    Giacomo Leopardi
    “The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.”
    ― Giacomo Leopardi
    tags: knowledge
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    Robertson Davies
    “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
    ― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
    tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality
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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
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    William Blake
    “What is now proved was once only imagined.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: english-poet, inspirational, knowledge, willpower
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    Albert Einstein
    “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions."

    (Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: disagreement, dissent, equanimity, expressing, knowledge, opinions, prejudices, social, society, thought
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    Confucius
    “The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: futility, knowledge, religion
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    “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”
    ― Ronald E. Osborn
    tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-emerson
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    C.S. Lewis
    “You can't know, you can only believe - or not.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: faith, knowledge
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