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"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it." -
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Top 5 quotes from Samuel Johnson
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
"A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself."
"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment."
"No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous."
Top 5 quotes from Knowledge
"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."
"Information is not knowledge."
"I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants."
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