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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
performances i-can can-do
I've realized that I can do performances. David Hockney
performances best-performance
How much we like ourselves governs our performance. Brian Tracy
performances best-performance
The best performances, are those that can be performed once. Brandon Sanderson
performances
I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that. Adam Lambert
performances flattered repeats
So I'm one of the few celebrities that got to do a repeat performance on 'The Simpsons,' which I'm very flattered by. Al Yankovic
performances
I've seen my performances. I don't like them. Don Ameche
performances
Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family. David Cassidy
performances live-performance
I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it. Bob Gunton
performances impressed not-impressed
I'm not impressed by your performance. Georges St-Pierre