“Because they know all the words, they think they know all the truths.”
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Joseph Joubert253
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Tarkan (1972) Turkish singer
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John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
Source: The Complete Poems
“To those who know thee not, no words can paint!
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Hannah More (1745–1833) English religious writer and philanthropist
Sensibility.
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Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist
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Papa Hemingway (1966)
“All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.”
Nicholas of Cusa book De Docta Ignorantia
De Docta Ignorantia (On Learned Ignorance) (1440)
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
volume I; lecture 1, "Atoms in Motion"; section 1-1, "Introduction"; p. 1-1
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
James Burgh (1714–1775) British politician
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)