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As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.
ROBERT HUGH BENSON, Intellectual Slavery

Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK, Choke

Knowledge shuts a man's mouth.
ERWIN SYLVANUS, Dr. Korczak and the Children

Yet with great toil all that I can attain
By long experience, and in learned schools,
Is for to know my knowledge is but vain,
And those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING, The Tragedy of Croesus

Sorrow is Knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
LORD BYRON, Manfred

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
ALBERT EINSTEIN, Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbild

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
MARGARET FULLER, Woman's Day Magazine, Sep. 12, 2007

nformation is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.
TOBSHA LEARNER, The Witch of Cologne

Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.
IVAN PANIN, Thoughts

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
HORACE MANN, Thoughts

Knowledge will soon become folly, when good sense ceases to be its guardian.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine

Knowledge is twofold and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of what is false.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon