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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.
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.
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.
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.
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
knowledge perfect brain
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
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.
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
shapes helping help-me
Competing helps me to polish my shape. Blanka Vlasic
shapes lines pages
To visit Morocco is still like turning the pages of some illuminated Persian manuscript all embroidered with bright shapes and subtle lines. Edith Wharton
shapes matter canvas
No matter what the illusion created, it is a flat canvas and it has to be organized into shapes... David Hockney
shapes scared
I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't. Edward Furlong
shapes rooms mold
The forces that affect our lives, the influences that mold and shape us, are often like whispers in a different room, teasingly indistinct, apprehended only with difficulty. Charles Dickens
shapes use wells
Knowledge rooted in experience shapes what we value and as a consequence how we know what we know as well as how we use what we know. bell hooks
shapes way stories
The stories we are told shape the way we see the world, which shapes the way we experience the world. Derrick Jensen
shapes body plant
Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them. Desiderius Erasmus
shapes conditioning shows
When I was in top shape I'd go to the ring and show my conditioning. Alexis Arguello
pebbles moonlight caught
I caught a pebble in the moonlight. David Gemmell
pebbles rolling-along grain
You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else. Joseph Joubert
pebbles juxtaposition aliens
Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. Learned Hand
pebbles film sand
The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult film - from a physical and logistical standpoint - that I've ever made. Robert Wise
pebbles female lovers
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. Victor Hugo