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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
absurd aware room
When you take a character seriously, there's more room for comedy because you're not aware of how absurd you are. Robin McLeavy
absurd advocate einstein expressed good great ideas notion similar
Einstein was a great advocate of the notion that good ideas look absurd at the beginning. Camus expressed a similar view. Michael Leunig
absurd bills federal government next orleans pays unless unlikely
unless the federal government adopts New Orleans as its ward and pays all its bills for the next 20 years--an unlikely to absurd proposition--the place won't be rebuilt. Dennis Hastert
absurd bit easily everyday life pull routines seems stuck wakes weird wider
I think we get stuck in routines so easily that when an absurd moment in life seems to be there for no reason, it wakes you up out of your everyday pattern. You pull back and look at life a little bit wider because of that one weird thing you weren't expecting. Kurt Braunohler
absurdity came joke life lives order smell
I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.
absurd good job
I like that feeling of discombobulation that comes in creating an absurd world that doesn't make sense. 'Monty Python' does a good job of it; 'Bugs Bunny,' too. Reggie Watts
absurd anne grew jane loving
Like everyone else, I grew up loving the Anne books, but L.M. Montgomery is so much more. Like Jane Austen, she has an eye for the absurd and a gift for the 'mot juste.' Lauren Willig
absurd cartoonist clown comic outside seems sort
It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well. Stephan Pastis
absurd business characters feature half identify japanese mad point related role scripts sent
About half the scripts sent to me feature characters I just can't identify with, particularly one-dimensional businessmen or, if it's a comedy, some absurd 10-year-old Japanese stereotype, some role related to IT or business... There's no point in getting mad about it; it's just the way things are. Ken Watanabe
fine source benevolence
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
fine i-can
I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best. Chris Bosh
fine moved pleasure
The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things. Jean Bruyere
fine improve race rebuilding techniques trying
We're in a rebuilding process, we're doing fine for where we're at. We're just trying to improve on their race techniques and have them do their best.
finer practice rigor tie wear
Where it was once de rigueur to wear a tie in New York's finer establishments, that practice is now de rigor mortis.
finest men talked
When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.
finest emperor plans
The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing. Bertolt Brecht
finest spoiled should
The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
fine-china fine china
We're not polishing fine china here. Bill Belichick