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“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.”
No. 2 (24 March 1750) http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/toccer-new2?id=Joh1Ram.sgm&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=2&division=div1
Source: The Rambler (1750–1752)
“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”
“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.
http://books.google.com/books?id=W2k6AAAAcAAJ&q=%22Musik+h%C3%B6here+Offenbarung+ist+als+alle+Weisheit+und+Philosophie%22&pg=PA193#v=onepage
As reported by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe, 28 May 1810.
Goethe's Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde: Seinem Denkmal, Volume 2, Dümmler, 1835, p. 193.
Variant: Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
“A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.”
Un sot savant est sot plus qu'un sot ignorant.
Act IV, sc. iii
Les Femmes Savantes (1672)
“Chocolate is not a matter of life and death--it's more important than that.”
Source: At Last
“The human soul needs beauty more than bread.”
“False humility is more insulting than open pride!”
Source: Rise of the Evening Star
“Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?”
Source: Life of Pi
“Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”