Related Quotes
All quotes about:
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
telescopes lsd instruments
LSD is simply an exploratory instrument like a microscope or telescope, except this one is inside of you instead of outside of you. Alan Watts
telescopes
You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
telescopes next inquiry
Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets. David Willetts
telescopes computer astronomy
Computer science has as much to do with computers as astronomy has to do with telescopes. Edsger Dijkstra
telescopes radio way
The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals. Garik Israelian
telescopes one-of-those-days ends
It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope. J. D. Salinger
telescopes hiding microscopes
It is not only that there is no hiding place for the gods from the searching telescope and microscope; there is no such society any more as the gods once supported. Joseph Campbell
telescopes world microscopes
The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Gilbert K. Chesterton
telescopes looks thanks
Thanks to the invention of the telescope, planets that are 100 billion miles away look to be only 50 billion miles away. John Wagner
instruments performing audience
The audience is like my instrument. It's not just me up there, it's collaborative. Bobby McFerrin
instruments
Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you. Billie Joe Armstrong
instruments
Friendship is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others. C. S. Lewis
instruments myth
myself ... is merely an instrument to connect life and a myth Anais Nin
instruments ill mischief
When to mischief mortals bend their will, how soon they find it instruments of ill. Alexander Pope
instruments
Charkha is an instrument of service. Mahatma Gandhi
instruments
When filming, I like to travel with an instrument. Logan Lerman
instruments torture ragnor-fell
I wouldn't call that an instrument of music," Ragnor observed sourly. "An instrument of torture, perhaps. Cassandra Clare
instruments contempt exposing
Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. Isaac Barrow