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Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is t

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot. – Samuel Horsley

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The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. – Plato

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