“Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, book Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and cl… 1844–1900

Louis L'Amour book The Walking Drum

Source: The Walking Drum (1984), Ch. 25

“I accept you as you are, and I will always hold you close in my heart. I will walk beside you forever. (Fang)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

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“To give a full explanation of the mystic passages of the Bible is contrary to the law and to reason; besides, my knowledge of them is based on reasoning, not on divine inspiration”

Maimónides book The Guide for the Perplexed

Introduction
Guide for the Perplexed (c. 1190), Part III
Context: To give a full explanation of the mystic passages of the Bible is contrary to the law and to reason; besides, my knowledge of them is based on reasoning, not on divine inspiration [and is therefore not infallible].... It is... possible that my view is wrong, and that I misunderstand passages referred to.... Those, however, for whom this treatise has been composed, will, on reflecting on it and thoroughly examining each chapter, obtain a clear insight into all that has been clear and intelligible to me. This is the utmost that can be done in treating this subject so to be useful to all without fully explaining it.

“I insist that my positive knowledge, however small, is not to be set aside for the gentleman's ignorance, however great.”

Leonard Bacon (1802–1881) American Congregational preacher and writer.

Reported in Friends' Intelligencer and Journal (1898) Volume 55, p. 210. No earlier source for this quotation is given, or has otherwise been identified. Several variants are found elsewhere, e.g., ""I cannot allow my opponent's Ignorance, however vast, to offset my knowledge, however small," reported in The Kingston Daily Freeman, Volume 33, Number 167, 3 May 1904, p. 4; and "my knowledge, however small, must outweigh your ignorance, however large," reported in Semi-Centennial (1939), p. 5, by Leonard Bacon, the great-grandson of the preacher. This quote has recently been mis-attributed to William James.