“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
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Hippocrates
4 quotes“Everything in excess is opposed to nature.”
Socrates
4 quotes“The only thing I know is that I know nothing, and i am no quite sure that i know that.”
Alfred Whitehead
4 quotes“We think in generalities, but we live in detail. To make the past live, we must perceive it in detail in addition to thi...”
Immanuel Kant
3 quotes“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”
Jorge Luis Borges
3 quotes“We are as ignorant of the meaning of the dragon as we are of the meaning of the universe.”
Robert M. Pirsig
3 quotes“For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.”
Simone Weil
2 quotes“Pain is the root of knowledge.”
Douglas Adams
2 quotes“Exactly!" said Deep Thought. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means.”
T. S. Eliot
2 quotes“All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.”
Isaac Asimov
2 quotes“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”
Anne Rice
2 quotes“Let the flesh instruct the mind.”
Khalil Gibran
2 quotes“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”