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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
injustice destroyed
Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it. Bayard Rustin
injustice speak protect
I understand that you're supposed to protect a fellow officer, but when injustice is happening, it's on them to speak up as well. Brandon Marshall
injustice results
Injustice results as much from treating unequals equally as from treating equals unequally. Aristotle
injustice socialism response
While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice. Ed Miliband
injustices saw
It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers. F. Sionil Jose
injustice wonderful contradiction
The late Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, for example, had a wonderful ability to get her country's injustices and contradictions down on paper. Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard. Adam Hochschild
injustice destruction humans
... but it is human to be outraged by injustice, even to the point of courting destruction! Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
injustice solutions
Many an injustice is presented as solution and gift. Bryant H. McGill
injustice ministers fraud
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. Edmund Burke