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Quote by Matthew Simpson
If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and li

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses how wide is that we gain from other sources. – Matthew Simpson

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Mute though his lips be, yet they still speak. Hushed is his voice, but its echoes of liberty are ringing through the world, and the sons of bondage listen with joy. – Matthew Simpson

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Presidents Day
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Matthew Simpson
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We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. – Matthew Simpson

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Faith
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin

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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. – Thomas Jefferson

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Knowledge

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. – George Boole

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Knowledge

Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is The Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. – Terry Eagleton

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Knowledge

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Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain — at least in a poor country like Russia — and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect. – Leon Trotsky

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Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. – Mark Twain

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