“I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell.” — Michael Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension
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“Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.” — Jeff Noon, Vurt
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“We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.” — Charles Osgood, The Osgood Files
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“All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.” — Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
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“Our knowledge can be only finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.” — Karl Popper,”On the Sources of Knowledge and Ignorance,” Annual Philosophical Lecture to British Academy (01960-01-20)
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“We do not necessarily progress or improve as a human race alongside the leaps and bounds of science and knowledge.” — Derren Brown, Tricks of the Mind
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“Odysseus had himself tied to the mast and rationally relinquished his option to act, his sailors plugged their ears with wax and rationally relinquished their option to know.” — Steven Pinker, “It’s Not Irrational to Party Like It’s 1999,” Nautilus (2021-11-17)
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“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of island, . As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” — John Archibald Wheeler, “Gravity quantized?,” Scientific American (Sep 1992)
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“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Breakfast of Champions
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“Display of superior knowledge is as great a vulgarity as display of superior wealth—greater indeed, inasmuch as knowledge should tend more definitely than wealth towards discretion & good manners.” — Henry Watson Fowler, A Dictionary Of Modern English Usage
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