Quote by Arthur Machen
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and fi

Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. – Arthur Machen

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If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress. – Arthur Machen

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It is all nonsense, to be sure and so much the greater nonsense inasmuch as the true interpretation of many dreams – not by any means of all dreams – moves, it may be said, in the opposite direction to the method of psycho-analysis. – Arthur Machen

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Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science. – Arthur Machen

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I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. – Thomas Malthus

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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. – Seymour Papert

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The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. – Irving Howe

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