Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. – Charles Caleb Colton

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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 hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of the reciprocal interaction of new factual insights and knowledge on the one hand with changes in the theoretical system on the other. – Talcott Parsons

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So Id be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. Id let him use a teleprompter. Ill just rely on knowledge. Well do fine. – Newt Gingrich

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