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"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"
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"My favorite words in the world are these: in conjunction.They question curiosities in simple form and function. is a query of broadest scope. is wonder that fuels all hope.Together they lasso the mind like rope, and spur the wildest deductions!"
"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."
"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."
"Everything I know, I know because of love."
"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."
"In worthy teaching, all things are related."
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"I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes."
"I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while."
"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are."
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