Famous quotes containing the words knowledge and/or society:
“Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.
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—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)