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

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One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. – Jean-Francois Lyotard

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If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you. – Ramakrishna

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