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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

Other quotes by John Locke

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

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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. – John Locke

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There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge. – Michel de Montaigne

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Knowledge is haunted by the ghost of past opinion. – Author Unknown

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But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities? – Albert Claude

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Knowledge

Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things. – David Deutsch

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Knowledge

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