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“The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.”

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Author:Aristotle

“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.”

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Author:Aristotle

“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.”

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Author:Michel de Montaigne

“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end.”

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Author:Aristotle

“With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.”

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Author:Stefan Zweig

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”

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Author:John Locke

“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”

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Author:John Locke

“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”

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Author:Alfred North Whitehead

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”

“Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.”

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Book:At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story

Source: At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story

“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Reason in man is rather like God in the world.”

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Book:Philosophical Texts

Source: Philosophical Texts

“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”

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Author:Tom Stoppard

“He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”

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Book:论语

Source: 论语

“We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.”

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Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

“A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.”

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Book:The Dialogues of Plato

Source: The Dialogues of Plato

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

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Book:Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.”

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Author:Epictetus