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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
pretend talented
When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office! Taylor Handley
pretend
I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one. Eric Maskin
pretending knows
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing. Barbara Kingsolver
pretend
When things are desperate, there is no need to pretend that everything is beautiful.
pretending towel
When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.' Olivia Hussey
pretend princesses wait
In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream. Anna Netrebko
pretend
Much as I'd like to, you can't pretend this is not a big deal.
pretending
I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films. Martin Freeman
pretending pretending-to-be-someone-else working-life
I spend my working life pretending to be someone else. Andrew Lincoln