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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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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant. – John Locke

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Truth
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John Locke
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Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. – John Locke

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Knowledge
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John Locke
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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. – David Hume

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When a mans knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. – Herbert Spencer

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Its clear that people are going to download media files, and theyre going to talk to each other, and theyre going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of. – Michael Nesmith

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The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. – Daniel Bell

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Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men. – Henry Ward Beecher

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To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it. – Novalis

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