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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
barbarians mark
It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand. Arthur C. Clarke
barbarians conan ifs
If you go back to the Conan the Barbarian series, I really liked that. Andre Braugher
barbarians able blame
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? Angela Carter
barbarians core decided listened marxists problem saying slogans
We listened to the slogans of the barbarians - and this is the core of the problem - we decided that what the Marxists were saying had a point. Barbara Amiel
barbarians
A barbarian is not aware that he is a barbarian. Jack Vance
barbarians noble physical-strength
The noble caste was in the beginning always the barbarian caste: their superiority lay, not in their physical strength, but primarily in their psychical - they were more complete human beings... Friedrich Nietzsche
barbarians violence artistic
I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one. Maurice de Vlaminck
barbarians belong
These are outlaws, these are terrorists, barbarians who don't really belong to any identity, any nationality. Marwan Muasher
barbarians firsts england
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians. Tacitus
too-much fables labels
Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables
too-much used changed
Everything has changed. I cannot be used anymore. Those days are over. I know too much. What I do now, I do for me. China Mieville
too-much pebbles diamond
Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles. Bryce Courtenay
too-much week working-it
When you start working on a series, it's almost too much work. It's like a movie a week. Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
too-much taste littles
To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much. William Shakespeare
too-much energy down-and
I don't really read too much. It really is counter to my energy. I can't sit down and concentrate on words. Charlie Bewley
too-much bears would-be
We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear. Bill Russell
too-much gin drank
Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin. Edward Gorey
too-much because-i-can bother
It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much. David Hockney