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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

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

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.