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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Confucius

Knowledge, Ignorance, Real

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell

Knowledge, Ignorance, Realize

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Anais Nin

Love, Age, Protect

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken

Religion, Respect, Beautiful

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.
Aldous Huxley

Soul, Cannot, Fate

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sigmund Freud

Impossible, Instinct, Overlook

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Bertrand Russell

Life, Great, Happy

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Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Samuel Smiles

Life, Ourselves, Large

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau

Love, Age, Protect

Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund Freud

Person, Ego, Fact

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
William James

Great, History, Human

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
Aldous Huxley

Great, State, Determined

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Love, Around, Space

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.
Paul Ryan

Greatest, Person, Giving

To some extent I liken slavery to death.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Death, Slavery, Liken

We pardon to the extent that we love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Thomas Aquinas

Free, Choice, Rational

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.
Plutarch

Power, Knowledge, Rather

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
Ralph Marston

Problem, Matter, Matters

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

Faith, Lost, Holy

I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.
Sidney Poitier

Truth, Legal, Liars

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
Alexander the Great

Power, Knowledge, Others

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
E. O. Wilson

Wrong, Both, Close

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison

Knowledge, Nothing, Knows

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Jimmy Carter

Health, History, Control

I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God.
Nicolaus Copernicus

God, Truth, Human

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
Richard M. Nixon

Change, Great, History

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.
Christopher Hitchens

Education, Religion, Children

But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.
Gustave Flaubert

Love, Off, Touch

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.
Alexander the Great

Knowledge, Others, Rather

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