Quote by Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson

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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. – Samuel Johnson

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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. – Isaac Asimov

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Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. – Avery Brooks

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Sin, guilt, neurosis they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge. – Henry Miller

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If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen. – Leon Spinks

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That which proves too much, proves nothing! – Proverb

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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. – Aldous Huxley

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