“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”
— Laurence Sterne
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Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
“Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”
— Enrico Fermi
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Knowledge is like money: the more he
“Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.”
— Josh Billings
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If knowledge can create problems, it is
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
— Isaac Asimov
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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the
“Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.”
— David Hume
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This crisis exposed very significant problems in
“This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk.”
— Timothy Geithner
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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs,
“A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.”
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom
“The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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In any case, in so far as
“In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.”
— James H. Breasted
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There is, so I believe, in the
“There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.”
— Hermann Hesse
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
— Charles Darwin
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