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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
keeping-secrets people kept-secrets
A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
keeping-secrets mind important
But it is important always to keep in mind that the danger of harming humans is not connected only or even mainly with telling secrets, there can be great danger in keeping secrets. Daniel Ellsberg
keeping-secrets want very-good
I am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me! Miley Cyrus
keeping-secrets known some-things-are-meant-to-be
There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant to be known. Carl Sagan
keeping-secrets agents natural
All women are natural born espionage agents. Eddie Cantor
keeping-secrets wish kept-secrets
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
keeping-secrets giving secret
Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. Elbert Hubbard
keeping-secrets waiting kind
I am the worst at keeping secrets. I am the kind of person that the second I buy someone a Christmas present, I tell them what I bought them. I don't wait until Christmas. I'm not good at it. Jessica Chastain
keeping-secrets secret ifs
How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves? Francois de La Rochefoucauld
alchemist gold alchemy
You are an alchemist; make gold of that. William Shakespeare
alchemist path omen
God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. Paulo Coelho
alchemist alchemist-love
When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.
alchemist earth alchemist-book
Everything on Earth is being continuously transformed.
alchemist treasure adventurer
I'm an adventurer, looking for treasure
alchemist firsts no-fear
I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.
alchemist personal-legend ifs
If you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better.
alchemist personal-legend want
You must always know what it is that you want.
alchemist forget deals
Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.