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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. -

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. – John Locke

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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. – John Locke

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When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it. – John Locke

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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

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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. – Alfred North Whitehead

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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. – Charles Caleb Colton

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To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. – Nicolaus Copernicus

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