Quote by Richard Cecil
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. – Richard Cecil

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If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. – Richard Cecil

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Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. – Richard Cecil

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Thus, in accordance with the spirit of the Historical School, knowledge of the principles of the human world falls within that world itself, and the human sciences form an independent system. – Wilhelm Dilthey

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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? – Thomas Henry Huxley

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Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. – Thomas Bulfinch

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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. – Tahar Ben Jelloun

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