"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

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All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
More T. S. Eliot quotes
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in infomation?
"No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; ...
"What was to be the value of the long looked forward to,Long hoped for calm, the autumnal serenityAnd the wisdom of age? Had they deceived usOr deceive...
"The only wisdom we can hope to acquireIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
"Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.