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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but t

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. – Charles Caleb Colton

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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. – Igor Stravinsky

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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobodys word about them. – Henry Bolingbroke

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There is no stopping the worlds tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few. – Van Wyck Brooks

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Basically I was a rebel growing up. I got kicked out of six schools. But I dont think that it makes you less of an intellect. You know, if you ever crave knowledge, theres always a library. – Michelle Rodriguez

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