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Quote by Isaac Asimov
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wi

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. – Isaac Asimov

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To insult someone we call him bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, human might be the greater insult. – Isaac Asimov

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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. – Isaac Asimov

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I feel like Ive reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what Ive been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where Ive been, and beyond it. – Cathy Freeman

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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but its not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. – Terry Pratchett

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I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth. – Thomas Malthus

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. – Lord Byron

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