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He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
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His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
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He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.
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He who boasts of his accomplishments will heap ridicule.
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The wise man boasts of his goods and wares; the foolish one of his young wife.
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His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh...
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With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth.
JOHN MADDEN
With all his tumid boasts, he's like the sword-fish, who only wears his weapon in his mouth
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With loads of learned lumber in his head,
With his own ...
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It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
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A person of little knowledge
Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.
His fleshes increases; ANONYMOUS
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
SAMUEL BUTLER
He that complies against his will, Is of his own opinion still.
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He caught me stealing his golden phoenix.'
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ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
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He takes nothin...
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He covered her hand...
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY
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I feel his heartbeat against my cheek,as fast as my own.
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He couldn't take his eye off that dragon
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GENE STRATTON-PORTER
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In your novels do you lie deliberately or just out of ignorance?"

Laughter. A murmur of a...
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She knew that he wasn’t asleep.

He knew she knew of his pretense.
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Is reall...
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'I think that I got the disorder in Mullingar...
FLANN O'BRIEN
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU
His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
WILLIAM SHENSTONE
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, c...
JOHN DRYDEN
He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
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Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To c...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Will’s voice dropped. “Everyone makes mistakes, Jem.”
“Yes,” said Jem. “You just ma...
CASSANDRA CLARE
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HOPE JAHREN
I am the slave of the Master of Prophets
And my fealty to him has no beginning.

I am...
يوسف النبهاني
Got some knowledge for you."

"Oh? What's that?"

His lips touched her forehea...
STACIA KANE
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When he is born, a baby's head is filled with the knowledge o...
JAY WOODMAN
Perplext in faith, but pure in deeds,
At last he beat his music out.
There lives more fait...
ALFRED TENNYSON
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
BIBLE BIBLE
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
BIBLE
The ignorance of a leader is inverse to that of his followers.
CHAD CARDOTT
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