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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
math magnificence study
The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
mathematics grids type
... nets, grids, and other types of calculus. Alan Watts
math race age
What's great is that because math is such a universal language, really, our fans come in all shapes and sizes, all ages and genders and races and backgrounds and cultures. David Krumholtz
math promise violence
What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence. David Graeber
mathematics certain known
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false). Carl Sagan
math people guy
When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that. Casey Affleck
math mathematics shut
We are going to shut down their operations, and if he would do the math he would come back to the table, Mark Blondin
math unjust-society moral
Capitalism is like math. It is amoral. It is good at producing wealth; it's bad at distributing wealth. Unless it operates within a moral framework it will produce an unjust society. Charley Reese
mathematical-equations panic firsts
Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation. Charles Lindbergh
logic cold evolution
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. David Quammen
logic ethics accomplished
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics. Anton Chekhov
logic students reasonable
Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing. Deng Xiaoping
logical shoreline knows
The more you know, the more you know you don't know. Aristotle
logic tradition obsolete
An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time. Ed Parker
logic humans human-beings
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
logic appeals reason-and-logic
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. Samuel Butler
logic enough reason
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
logic pleasure footsteps
Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps. Alexander Smith