The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
Better to illuminate than merely to shine, to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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