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• Doctors often prescribe medicines about which they know relatively little for diseases about which they know even a little less, in people about whom they know practically nothing.
  It is a real wonder that, under these circumstances, the patient even survives, as most of them do....
• Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. -- Michel de Montaigne
• Love is I know not what, which comes from I know not where and finishes I know not how. -- Scudery
• We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world
  and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read....
• REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew.
  The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing....
• Love, which proclaims thee human bids thee know a truth more lofty in thy lowliest hour than shallow glory taught to human power, "What's human is immortal!
  -- Bulwe...
• The stars are made of the same atoms as the earth." I usually pick one small topic like this to give a lecture on.
  Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars -- mere gobs of gas atoms....
• hose who feel it (sympathy for evil) -- feel nothing for any quality of human greatness, for any person or action that deserves admiration, approval, esteem.
  These are the things I feel. You'll find that it's one or the other....
• People in groups tend to agree on courses of action which as individuals, they know are stupid.