Samuel Langhorne Clemens Quotes on Knowledge
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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
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He is a stranger to me, but he is a most remarkable man - and I am the other one. Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known, and I know the rest.
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This is petrified truth.
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What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
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There is something worse than ignorance, and that's knowing what ain't so.
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.