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Quote by Henry Bolingbroke
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to un

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobodys word about them. – Henry Bolingbroke

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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. – Henry Bolingbroke

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An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. – John McCarthy

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In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy… its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter? – Humphry Davy

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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. – Plutarch

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Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. – Abbott L. Lowell

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