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Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are… — Elie Wiesel
"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn… — Horace
We're [President Barack Obama and I] clear on the fact that we have to stay humble and prayerful. We have to dig down deep to… — Michelle Obama
It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe though we didn't know it… — Susan Sontag
We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not good. Some would say milk's not… — Bob Dole
That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is… — John F. Kerry
If we don't know life, how can we know death? — Confucius
Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now.… — Leo Buscaglia
It's not what we don't know that prevents us from succeeding; it's what we know that just ain't so that is our greatest obstacle. — Josh Billings
Astronomy is a cold, desert science, with all its pompous figures,-depends a little too much on the glass-grinder, too little on the mind. 'T is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has to be discovered. We know only a few streaks about astronomy. We are only beginning to… — Lincoln Steffens
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a… — Robert Green Ingersoll
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it… — Blaise Pascal
We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of… — Karl Marx
All science is full of statements where you put your best face on your ignorance, where you say: ... we know awfully little about this,… — Hermann Bondi
Science is what we know, and philosophy is what we don't know. — Bertrand Russell
The Reader may here observe the Force of Numbers, which can be successfully applied, even to those things, which one would imagine are subject to… — John Arbuthnot
The whole question of imagination in science is often misunderstood by people in other disciplines. ... They overlook the fact that whatever we are allowed… — Richard P. Feynman
We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain. — Claude Bernard
We are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that… — Robert Morrison MacIver

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