Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. – Henry James Sumner Maine

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof. – J. K. Rowling