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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
mediocrity genius birth
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities Cesare Lombroso
mediocrity culture defeat
The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily, Eddie McGuire
mediocrity century bureaucracy
There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee. Benedict Cumberbatch
mediocrity
We encourage one another in mediocrity. Charles Lamb
mediocrity useless vapid
There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue. Anton Chekhov
mediocrity application superiority
Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. Baltasar Gracian
mediocrity individual sole
Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth. Boris Pasternak
mediocrity typical should
Any corporate policy and plan which is typical of the industry is doomed to mediocrity. Where this is not so, it should be possible to demonstrate that all other competitors are at a distinct disadvantage. Bruce Henderson
mediocrity possession native
Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions. Blaise Pascal
genius reason highest
The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.
genius literature nodding
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
genius literature may
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.
genius talent particular
Genius in one grand particular is like life. We know nothing of either but by their effects.
genius eccentricity
Eccentricities of genius. Charles Dickens
genius athens males
The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny. Camille Paglia
genius poetic emily
Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.
genius said mark
There is none but he Whose being I do fear; and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony's was by Caesar. William Shakespeare
genius republican throwing
Historically, the Republicans have been geniuses at throwing away advantages. Bob Packwood