Quote #56

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

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  2. To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to run the old, old risk of failing to le…
  3. The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
  4. True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the United States is steadily dumbing down.
  5. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
  6. When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to de…
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