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You can be very, very competent... but if you're not willing to speak out... have the confidence based on your knowledge... what's the point?

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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.


For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.


The stomach is the only part of man which can be fully satisfied. The yearning of man's brain for new knowledge and experience and for more pleasant and comfortable surroundings never can be completely met. It is an appetite which cannot be appeased.


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All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.


The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.