All we like sheep have gone astray  (Isaiah 53:6 bible old testament)

  Who are a little wise / The best fools be.    (John Donne, “The Triple Fool”)

  Truth is truth To the end of reckoning They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts (Shakespeare Measure for Measure V, i)

  Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge (Sir Philip Sidney, Aracdia)

  Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.  (Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism)

  A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.  (Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism)

  Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. (Samuel Johnson, Rasselas)

  He is not wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.  (Samuel Johnson, The Idler)

  Truth will come to light; murder cannot be hid long. Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice II, ii)

  He doth nothing but talk of his horse.  (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice I, ii)

  The Devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.  (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice I, iii)

  This age thinks better of a gilded fool

Than of a thread bare saint in wisdom’s school (Thomas Dekker, Old Forunatus)

  The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting. (Ben Jonson, Catilene’s Conspiracy III, ii)

  Carcasses bleed at the sight of the murderer. (Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy)

  Knowledge is power. (Sir Francis Bacon, Sacred Meditations)

  …a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. . (Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy)

  The folly of mistaking…a metaphor for proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.( Paul Valery, Introduction to Method of Leonardo. da Vinci)

  A kind Of excellent dumb discourse (Shakespeare, The Tempest III, iii)