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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
shields insult room-with-a-view
I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. E. M. Forster
shields easier idealist
Nothing was easier to shatter than the fragile shield of an idealist. Kristin Hannah
shields protect-you protect
Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you. Queen Rania of Jordan
shields
How can I shield myself from the things that I hear? Juliana Hatfield
shields minorities constitution
Minorities have a right to appeal to the Constitution as a shield against such oppression. James K. Polk
shields truth-is
The truth is often one's best shield. James Rollins
shields red faces
I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum. Les Dawson
shields groups my-friends
When I'm out with a group I hide in the corner and get legless. I just make sure my friends shield me. Samantha Mumba
specialty
We don't just have specialty foods, we have milkshakes and stuff, too. Lisa Crosby
specialty store
When we first moved to Scarborough, there was one Sri Lankan grocery store - now there's a take-out on every corner, each with some specialty or another. You can get what you want the way you want it, and that's very different from the way it used to be. Shyam Selvadurai
specialty work
We do most of our own work. Only specialty work is sublet out to other contractors. S. Walker