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Henry Thomas Buckle: Real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which only makes a…

Real knowledge consists not in an acquaintance with facts, which only makes a pedant, but in the use of facts, which makes a philosopher.

In today’s wordsReal knowledge isn't in being acquainted with facts, which only makes a pedant, but in using facts, which makes a philosopher.

Henry Thomas BuckleCommonly attributed
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From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources, compiled by James Wood, 1893

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