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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. -- George Bernard Shaw
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda. -- Antony Beevor
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. -- Charles Caleb Colton
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. -- Igor Stravinsky
When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised. -- James A. Forbes
The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn. -- Bernard DeVoto
Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false. -- Paul D. Boyer
The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. -- Isaac Asimov
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!] -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees. -- Sri Aurobindo
What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? -- Lucretius
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. -- Helen Keller
The image of the disinterested, dispassionate scientist is no less false than that of the mad scientist who is willing to destroy the world for knowledge. -- Lewis Wolpert
... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be. -- Thomas Sprat

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