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Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life.

— Immanuel Kant

Whoever in discussion adduces his authority uses not intellect but memory.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

— Plato

Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

— Voltaire

Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.

— Voltaire

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

— Albert Einstein

A full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

— Mark Twain

Much learning does not teach understanding.

— Heraclitus

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

— Bertrand Russell

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

— Mark Twain

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

— Samuel Johnson

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

— Voltaire

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

— Dante Alighieri

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

— Plato

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

— Virgil

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

— Samuel Johnson

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.

— Immanuel Kant

Happy is he who can discover the causes of things.

— Virgil

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason.

— Immanuel Kant

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

— Aristotle

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

— Albert Einstein

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

A little learning is a dangerous thing.

— Alexander Pope

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