“It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”
Source: Gone with the Wind
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Context: We are meant to know, or we are amoebae.
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know — and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves?
Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know — even if the knowledge endured only for the moment that comes before destruction — than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
Matthew Perry (actor)
(1969) American actor
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“Numberless are the world's wonders, but none
More wonderful than man.”
Sophocles
(-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian
Variant translation: There are many wonderful things, and nothing is more wonderful than man.
Source: Antigone, Line 333 (Ode I)
Arin Paul
(1980) Indian film director
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Edgar Guest
(1881–1959) American writer
Source: Just Folks (1917), The Man To Be, lines from stanza 3.