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Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished?... Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience. — John Locke · 1690Let us now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an aviary of all sorts of birds-some flocking together apart from the rest, others in small groups, others solitary, flying anywhere and everywhere... We may suppose that the birds are kinds of knowledge, and that when we were children, the receptacle was empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained in the enclosure a kind of knowledge, he may be said to have learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of the knowledge: and this is to know. — Socrates · 369 BCCrime1 quote
It's not what you know, it's what you can prove. — Alonzo · 2001Crime (film)1 quote
It's not what you know, it's what you can prove. — Alonzo · 2001Historical literature1 quote
In truth we know nothing, for truth lies in the depth. — Democritus · 240Thriller1 quote
It's not what you know, it's what you can prove. — Alonzo · 2001Thriller (film)1 quote
It's not what you know, it's what you can prove. — Alonzo · 2001