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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
useless would-be stamp-collecting
It would be hard to conceive of any activity more useless than stamp collecting. Dave Barry
useless chaos forget
And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless. Charles Bukowski
useless virtue morose
Without courage, all other virtues are useless. Edward Abbey
useless planning valuable
Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless. Ben Horowitz
useless accusation
Accusations are useless. Dominique de Villepin
useless not-happy satisfied
The main thing is to be satisfied with your work yourself. It's useless to have an audience happy if you are not happy. Aaron Copland
useless
When together, an ocean. When separate, a useless drop. Warda Tahir
useless action martial-arts
Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
useless firsts hobbies
At first blush I am tempted to conclude that a satisfactory hobby must be in large degree useless, inefficient, laborious, or irrelevant. Aldo Leopold
pleasure duty
One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty. Alan Bennett
pleasure given recollection
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. Agnes Repplier
pleasure
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation. Charles Lamb
pleasure pleasant
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
pleasure
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. Charles Baudelaire
pleasure pleasant pleasant-things
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. Baltasar Gracian
pleasure
Pleasure is everything. Diana Vreeland
pleasure products
Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure David Brooks
pleasure source slippery
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source. Billy Collins