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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.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.