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knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge simplicity complicated
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge class ferns
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge performances pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge discovery views
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge perfect brain
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge science two
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge world lifts
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. Charles Spurgeon
question strike
The possibility of a strike exists. There is no question about it. The possibility is distant, but it exists. Stuart Klaskin
question taken
We started on this about two years ago. There?s no question that this has taken a long time. Jim Coleman
questions
We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates. Clint Hurdle
question
We're going to take a hit, no question about it. Joel Hollander
questions sit spend talk time
We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him. Michael Vick
questions sort
We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions. Susie Wisniowski
question
We're going to have every pump, every sandbag out there. The only question is where do we put them. Craig Fugate
quests lost attainment
All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest. Arthur C. Clarke
quests service-to-others matured
Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives. Arianna Huffington