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• We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
• If we don't know it already, chances are we're not interested in learning it.
• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer and wish we didn't. -- Erica Mann Jong
• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't." -- Erica Jong
• We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.
  -- Plato (428-348? B.C.)...
• If we don't know life, how can we know death? -- Confuciu
• Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where.
  -- John Dryden (1631-1700) -- Aurengzebe, Act iv, Sc. 1...
• None can comprehend eternity but the eternal God. Eternity is an ocean, whereof we shall never see the shore
  it is a deep where we can find no bottom; a labyrinth from whence we cannot extricate ourselves and where we shall ever lose the door....
• We are prepared to go to the gates of hell - but no further.