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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
stupidity would-be fraud
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.
stupidity mind demand
One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand. Alan Bradley
stupidity bed loud
I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot. David Sedaris
stupidity glorification
Nothing disturbs me more than the glorification of stupidity. Carl Sagan
stupidity causes reputation
kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both. Kurt Vonnegut
stupidity profit made
Profits are not made by differential cleverness, but by differential stupidity. David Ricardo
stupidity wickedness imbeciles
To philosopher and historian the madness and imbecile wickedness of mankind ought to appear ordinary events. David Hume
stupidity opponents
The best humor is offered up by the stupidity of your opponents. Barney Frank
stupidity latter workers
There must always be some who are brighter and some who are stupider, the latter make up for it by being better workers. Bertolt Brecht
rooms mouths rings
When I open my mouth, the room rings. David H. Murdock
rooms mixing paint
My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out. Caio Fonseca
rooms band wrecks
Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them. Bryan Ferry
rooms use world
whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself. Edith Wharton
rooms ambiguity clear
In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it. David Trimble
rooms headache measuring
Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches. David Bromstad
rooms walks i-can
I can walk into a room with all my contemporaries and I will be very comfortable. Deepika Padukone
rooms firsts lucky
If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too. Edouard Manet
rooms alive ifs
If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive. Arthur Conan Doyle