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Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

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Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?

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No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; ...more

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What was to be the value of the long looked forward to,Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenityAnd the wisdom of age? Had they deceived usOr deceive...more

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The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.

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Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.