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Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.

—Robert Staughton Lynd

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The main thing is to know something and to say it.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.

—Edward Gibbon

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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

—Juvenal

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The truth is more important than the facts.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

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I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

—Richard Feynman

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We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

—Samuel Johnson

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I'm astounded by people who want to "know" the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

—Woody Allen

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To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

—Minna Antrim

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

—Upton Sinclair

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School is learning things you don't want to know, surrounded by people you wish you didn't know, while working toward a future you don't know will ever come."

—Dave Kellett

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To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

—George Orwell

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When one teaches, two learn.

—Robert Half

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

—Richard Feynman

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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

—Voltaire

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