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Thucydides

"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."

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"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."

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"The truth is that few know the truth."

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"I am reading Henry James, and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber."

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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!"

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"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."

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"To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away."

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"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."

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"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."

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"In worthy teaching, all things are related."

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"The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow."

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"Once the egoism has gone (stopped), all the worldly 'matter' of the body-complex [pudgal] are renounced! Where there is egoism, there is my-ness and where there is my-ness, there is a hidden egoism. When 'Knowledge of the Self' is attained, egoism and my-ness goes away. Only the dramatic (discharge) 'egoism' and 'my-ness' will remain."

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