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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of know

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. – Samuel Butler

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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable. – Samuel Butler

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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler

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But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals. – John Buchanan Robinson

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I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it. – Ella Maillart

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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. – Richard Cecil

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The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. – James Meade

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