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Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too. – Albert J. Nock

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The degree of ones emotions varies inversely with ones knowledge of the facts. – Bertrand Russell

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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. – Isaac Asimov

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