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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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The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. – Joseph Addison

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parenting
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We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning. – Joseph Addison

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Life
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The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge. – William Bligh

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Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action. – Karl Jaspers

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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. – Dante Alighieri

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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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