"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."

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— Karl Mannheim

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— Augustine of Hippo

Philosophy354–430

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"How much self-knowledge is limited to presenting other people with a more precise and exact description of our weaknesses."

— Max Frisch

Literature1911–1991

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— Bruce Lee

Entertainment1940–1973

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