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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
too-late path late
It is not too late to take another path. David Suzuki
too-late attention stories
Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
too-late late knows
Or is there no such thing as 'too late'? Is there only 'late' and is 'late' always better than 'never'? I don't know. Bernhard Schlink
too-late late
It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now Edith Wharton
too-late never-too-late late
It's never too late for those whose time has come. Bertolt Brecht
too-late realizing terrible
It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late. Edna Ferber
too-late left one-thing
There's only one thing left here to say. Love's never too late... Avril Lavigne
too-late sometimes late
Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late. Daniel Handler
too-late late
Very early in my life it was already too late. Elizabeth Wurtzel
live-and-learn just-live
You can live and learn, but you cannot learn to live. So just live. A. J. McLean
live-and-learn
Live and learn and pass it on. H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
live-and-learn you-live-and-you-learn you-live-and-learn
You live and you learn. Florence Welch
live-and-learn you-live-and-learn you-live-you-learn
As you get old, you live and learn. Frank Thomas
live-and-learn
We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live. Terry Pratchett
live-and-learn forget dies
You live and learn. Then you die and forget it all. George Foreman
live-and-learn wells
Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live. Will Cuppy