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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
arrogant chip shoulder
We're not as arrogant as they think we are. And I don't think they have a chip on their shoulder as much. Jamie Morris
arrogant i-can knows
I can come off as pretty arrogant, but it's because I know I'm right. Bram Cohen
arrogant ceremony submit
It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them. Blaise Pascal
arrogant used used-to-be
They're very nationalistic the French - or they used to be. Very insular. Pretty arrogant. Arthur Boyd
arrogant spirit geek
Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry. Bruce Sterling
arrogant dream execution hope mentally next question six whether
We're always prepared, whether mentally or physically. It's just a question of execution. And I think they're still cautiously optimistic. My hope and dream is for them to become arrogant in the next five, six weeks. Richard Corso
arrogant listen mixed prepared sends
She sends mixed signals, 'yes, I'm prepared to listen to you', but also arrogant and not give-and-take. Steve Harris
arrogant falling house looked minimum restore stop taking
'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away. Bronson Pinchot
arrogant assumed insane jagger life people since teenage telling
It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway! Brian Eno
method
It is better to have a bad method than to have none. Charles de Gaulle
method remorseless
She was remorseless, but she lacked method. Diana Wynne Jones
method points rice several time warning
You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence. Lee H. Hamilton
method holmes observation
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. Arthur Conan Doyle
method
Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune. Thomas Gray
method
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do. Thom Mayne
method schools
There are two schools of thought: There are those actors who explain to you that they know exactly how they're going to do the part... And then there is the other method, which is to have no method at all. This is mine. Simone Signoret
methodist university
Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department. Beth Henley
method planets stars velocity work
We don't know anything about planets around very young stars because the radial velocity method doesn't work with them, Charles Beichman