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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge perfect brain
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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
pockets painful deny
Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket. Charles Lamb
pockets useful
Macklin is as useful as pockets in your underpants. Mark Latham
pockets feels
Feel for others - in your pocket Charles Spurgeon
pockets framed should
Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed! Eddie Vedder
pockets may frogs
They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun. Dan Rather
pockets
I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets. Andrew Jackson
pockets school vote
If they want to get into the pockets of this school district, I am not going to vote for it. J. Horton
pockets want
Do you want to trust your life in God's pocket or keep it in your own? Billy Graham
pockets laundry trouble
Learn to put your troubles in your pocket, then leave them there when you do your laundry. John Avery
watches nightmare film
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it. Alan Rickman
watches culture ugh
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know? Alan Ball
watches looks like-you
How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do. David Tennant
watches hours skates
I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours... Carolina Kostner
watches instinct impress
When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me. Charles Lindbergh
watches lord caught
We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer
watches disaster conversation
You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally! David Brin
watches trailers
I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh. Benh Zeitlin
watches world
I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. Audrey Hepburn