| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
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| It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other. | Samuel Butler | The Way of All Flesh |  |
| Signs are small measurable things, but interpretations are illimitable, and in girls of sweet, ardent nature, every sign is apt to conjure up wonder, hope, belief, vast as a sky, and colored by a diffused thimbleful of matter in the shape of knowledge. | George Eliot | Middlemarch |  |
| His knowledge was greater than his wisdom, and his powers were far superior to his character. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Leather Funnel |  |
| Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table |  |
| Knowledge--it excites prejudices to call it science--is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore. | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The Poet at the Breakfast Table |  |
| I am never afraid of what I know. | Anna Sewell | Black Beauty |  |
| I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. | Willa Cather | My Antonia |  |
| To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. | Benjamin Disraeli | Sybil |  |
| Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding. | E. M. Forster | Howards End |  |
| But yet I am firmly persuaded that a great deal of consciousness, every sort of consciousness, in fact, is a disease. | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Notes from the Underground |  |