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“All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.”

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Book:Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

Source: Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

“Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war.”

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Author:Aristophanes

“All men by nature desire knowledge.”

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Author:Aristotle

“The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.”

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Book:Minority Report

Source: Minority Report

“We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.”

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Author:T. S. Eliot

“By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.”

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Author:C.P. Snow

“One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know nothing, of his future you know less."”

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Author:John M. Tyler

“I am a physician. I keep a drug-shop of lies. I give relief, consolation. Can one console and relieve without lying? ... Only women and doctors know how necessary and how helpful lies are to men.”

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Author:Anatole France

“Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.”

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Author:Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“Men are not created to know, men are not created to understand ... and our illusions increase with our knowledge.”

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Author:Anatole France

“A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.”

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Author:Francis of Assisi

“Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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