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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
understood havens
We fear only what we haven’t understood. Byron Katie
understood known
We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest. Arthur Helps
understood van
I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh. Nigel Hamilton
understood
What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart. Stephen Covey
understood
On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads. Jessica Sanchez
understood known
Music was known and understood before words were spoken. Charles Darwin
understood
My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood. Elie Wiesel
understood
To understand and be understood is to be free. Daniel Johnston
understood whole universe
Ultimately, the entire universe...has to be understood as a single undivided whole... David Bohm
possessed
I'm not possessed about owning the Buffalo Bills, just as I wasn't possessed about owning the Buffalo Sabres. Tom Golisano
possessed
He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire. Mahatma Gandhi
possessed
I'm possessed by love — but isn't everybody? Freddie Mercury
possessed qualities wish
He possessed many qualities that I wish I had. Kyle Williams
possessed qualities
He possessed a lot of qualities that we wanted in a consultant.
possessed
I am possessed by love and have no options. Elizabeth Smart