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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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Punctuality
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Richard Cecil
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Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. – Richard Cecil

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Beauty
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The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. – Benjamin Franklin

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I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. – Alexander the Great

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We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge. – Rory Bremner

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I dont know Dr. Rosenberg. I have never met her, I have never spoken or corresponded with this woman. And to my knowledge, she is ignorant of my work and background except in the very broadest of terms. – Steven Hatfill

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