Quote by Joseph Addison
The utmost extent of mans knowledge, is to know that he knows noth

The utmost extent of mans knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. – Joseph Addison

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What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. – Joseph Addison

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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. – Joseph Addison

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If the views I have expressed be right, we can think of our civilization evolving with the growth of knowledge from small wandering tribes to large settled law. – John Boyd Orr

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Whole areas of knowledge and information have been defined into nonexistence because the system cannot know, understand, control, or measure them. – Anne Wilson Schaef

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So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage. – Jonathan Kozol

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The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results. – John George Nicolay

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