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“While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or of ignorance. Knowledge is not so precise a concept as is commonly thought. Instead of saying 'I know this', we ought to say 'I more or less know something more or less like this'. ... Knowledge in practical affairs has not the certainty or the precision of arithmetic.”

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Author:Bertrand Russell

“There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.”

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Author:Peter Brodie

“Know what you do not know.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.”

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Author:Tony Robbins

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”

Source: The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman

“I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without any purpose - which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.”

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

“Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.”

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Author:Richard E. Byrd

“I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was not more successful, so in the end 'hexuronic acid' was agreed upon. To-day the substance is called 'ascorbic acid' and I will use this name.”

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Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

“It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.”

Men Science Knowledge Knowing Scientist Not Knowing Love Of Learning

Book:Collected Papers

Source: Collected Papers

“A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.”

Knows Men Doe Knowledge Knowing Ignorance Not Knowing Gross

Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.”

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Author:Laozi

“Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.”

Knows Knowledge Knowing Illness Taoism Not Knowing

Author:Laozi