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The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

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

Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature.

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.