"Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance."

Knowledge, Ignorance

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"Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance."

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"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"If we knew what is already there, there will be no need for research."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"One of the most important gifts that you can give to yourself is the gift of self-education, that is the best way to grow on constant basis."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"If you begin to read, you find the answers you seek."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Why must ignorance be destroyed? Because it is the number one destroyer of the people of God."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Oh, my dear Vimes, history changes all the time. It is constantly being re-examined and re-evaluated, otherwise how would we be able to keep historians occupied? We can't possibly allow people with their sort of minds to walk around with time on their hands."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"I know that I do not know, and uncertainty, certainly, is the cruelest of words."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers."

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"Inquiry is fatal to certainty."

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"We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street an Broadway."

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"Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity."

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"But the new generation had tasted the wine of philosophy, and from this time onward the rich youth of Rome went eagerly to Athens and Rhodes to exchange their oldest faith for the newest doubts."

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"For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give 'significant form' to the chaos of experience?"

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"A man is as old as his arteries and as young as his ideas."

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"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds."

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