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|34 = '''The only source of [[knowledge]] is experience.'''<br />
|34 = '''The only source of [[knowledge]] is experience.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Albert Einstein]]<br /></cite>
|35 = '''All the [[world]] is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.'''<br />
|35 = '''All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Martin H. Fischer<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Martin H. Fischer<br /></cite>
|36 = '''[[Knowledge]] is a process of [[pile|piling]] up [[fact]]s; [[wisdom]] lies in their [[simplification]].'''<br />
|36 = '''Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Martin H. Fischer<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Martin H. Fischer<br /></cite>
|37 = '''Real [[knowledge]] is to know the extent of one's [[ignorance]].'''<br />
|37 = '''Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Confucius]]<br /></cite>
|38 = '''Words constitute the ultimate texture and stuff of our [[morale|moral being]], since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the [[symbolism]]s whereby we express ourselves into existence.'''<br />
|38 = '''Words constitute the ultimate texture and stuff of our [[morale|moral being]], since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the [[symbolism]]s whereby we express ourselves into existence.'''<br />

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Words constitute the ultimate texture and stuff of our moral being, since they are the most refined and delicate and detailed, as well as the most universally used and understood, of the symbolisms whereby we express ourselves into existence.
Iris Murdoch

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