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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
newspapers said evidence
The newspapers at one time said that I was dead but after carefully examining the evidence I came to the conclusion that this statement was false. Bertrand Russell
newspapers stills
I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future. Bill Watterson
newspapers people powerful theater turn
Back when people couldn't read, other people would take newspapers and turn them into theater so that people would know what was going on in the world. That is a powerful thing. Aja Naomi King
newspapers
Newspapers tell us all about our culture, even when they conflict. Yoni Stern
newspapers provide sites though trying version web
Newspapers are trying to use their own Web sites to provide 24-hour coverage, even though the old dinosaur, ink-on-paper version only comes out once a day. Howard Kurtz
newspapers prove wrong
Newspapers are not dying. That's just wrong, and we are going to prove it wrong together. Gary Pruitt
newspapers happens
Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe. Carl Sandburg
newspapers knows
You know, the more I appear on newspapers, the more famous I become. Brenda Fassie
newspapers view wisdom
The conventional wisdom is that newspapers are dead. That's the view out there, but it couldn't be more wrong. Gary Pruitt
miscellaneous eloquence
True eloquence forgoes eloquence. Andre Gide
miscellaneous
Whatever come we have to meet it. Eleanor Roosevelt
miscellaneous resisting
We understand nature by resisting it. Gaston Bachelard
miscellaneous ifs dies
If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship. Rajneesh
miscellaneous ifs
If a thing goes without saying -- let it. Jacob Braude