Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will – are all gone. – Albert J. Nock

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A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. – Immanuel Kant

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. – Charles Caleb Colton

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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. – Immanuel Kant

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