"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."

Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician

Death, Knowledge, Ignorance

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"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge."

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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Artist

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"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."

Sorin Cerin, Romanian Philosopher

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"The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?"

Stephen King, American Author

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"I wish Merry was here," he heard himself saying, and quick thoughts raced through his mind, even as he watched the enemy come charging to the assault. "Well, well, now at any rate I understand poor Denethor a little better. We might die together, Merry and I, and since die we must, why not? Well, as he is not here, I hope he'll find an easier end. But now I must do my best."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Death, Enemy, Understanding, End

"Death is a fearful thing."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."

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"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."

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"Without adventure civilization is in full decay."

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"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it."

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"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."

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"Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all."

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."

"We cannot conceive death as anything else than the afterlife because we cannot comprehend death unless we live."

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"Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy."

"Death has a life which kills everybody's life."

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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."

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"It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."

"The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development."

"Philosophy is the product of wonder."

"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."

"Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced."