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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
degenerates nerves language
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched. Henry David Thoreau
degenerates hospitality madness
Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly. Francis Atterbury
degenerates mercy swine
God's mercy on you degenerate swine. Hunter S. Thompson
degenerates ancestor posterity
Posterity always degenerates till it becomes our ancestors. Horace Walpole
degenerates morality stills
The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate. Neil Young
degenerates action ifs
Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen. Peter Drucker
degenerates strategy
All good strategy eventually degenerates into work.
degenerates aristocracy tendencies
Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species. Thomas Paine
probability happens improbable
It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen. Aristotle
probability-theory risk management
Maybe we should teach schoolchildren probability theory and investment risk management. Andrew Lo
probability consequence
The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again. B. F. Skinner
probability-theory perfect expectations
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. George Boole