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- It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.
- Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones Diary
- The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- A learned man is an idler who kills time with study. Beware of his false knowledge: it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman, 1903
- He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
- Richard Whatley
- If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.
- Krishnamurti
- Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), (attributed)
- Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.
- African Proverb
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