"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."

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"They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance."

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"So vast is art, so narrow human wit."

"Men must be taught as if you taught them not, and things unknown proposed as things forgot."

"If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him."

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head."

"You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year."

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