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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

We can’t have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

We would be able neither to remember nor to reflect nor to compare nor to think, indeed, we would not even be the person who we were a moment ago, if our concepts were divided among many and were not to be encountered somewhere together in their most exact combination.