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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
knowing odds mind
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner. Charles Dickens
knowing acting firsts
This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.
knowing satisfaction greedy
I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver. Alan Alda
knowing-god knows deserve
To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved. Aiden Wilson Tozer
knowing would-be frightened
Death would be a complete knowingness, but what frightened him was this: not knowing beforehand what it was he would know. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
knowing trying shapes
I never start a section of the story without knowing how it will end. I also consciously try to shape the story as though it were a movie. Dave Barry
knowing quests enough
Its all about finding the right note at the right place and knowing when to leave well enough alone. And that's a lifelong quest. David Sanborn
knowing asking want
What counts is knowing who you want to be and asking for it. Bruce Wilkinson
knowing people capacity
Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive. Bryan Stevenson
judging fancy taste
'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'.
judging lawyer chosen
"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves.
judging
In my life, anyway, anytime that I judge something to be rigidly right or wrong, it comes from fear. Alanis Morissette
judging fame intrigue
I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.
judging people fields
They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity. David Sedaris
judging earth asteroids
Happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations...
judging
Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience. Carl Sagan
judging mercy ifs
There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death. William Shakespeare
judging charity
Gently to hear, kindly to judge.