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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
peaceful election states
I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures. Akhmad Kadyrov
peaceful achieve equal
Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter, Ban Ki-moon
peaceful violent ideals
Ideals are peaceful. History is violent. Brad Pitt
peaceful insecurity looks
The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity. Arlie Russell Hochschild
peaceful female needs
Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see. Bruce Cockburn
peaceful remember
Remember that you will create peace only when you are peaceful. Deepak Chopra
peaceful solitary
There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite. John C. Reilly
peaceful reflect talk true western
We need to reflect the true identity of Muslims, how peaceful they are and really be able to talk to the Western media about the true look and heart of the Muslims. Hesham Qandil
peaceful devil may
Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you! Albert Einstein
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything. Charles Dickens
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon. Charles Dickens
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own Charles Dickens
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
ruins enough ifs
If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it. David Pogue
ruins reputation made
I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work. Bill Murray
ruins helping sometimes
For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love. Chang-Rae Lee
ruins problem one-thing
Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem. Boman Irani
ruins pillars fame
It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin. Juvenal
ruining trying
I'll say it again: you've got to put the argument back in the game. They're trying to make baseball mechanized, a machine. They're ruining baseball. Doug Harvey
ruins frontiers
The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable. Bruce Sterling
ruins century 21st-century
The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier. Bruce Sterling
ruins welcome said
Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood. Brandon Sanderson
sleeping
What we're doing in sleeping is a very old evolutionary phenomenon. Steven Lima
sleeping
He?s driving. I?m sleeping on the way back. Randy Foye
sleeping time totally
He had been sleeping the whole time and was totally disoriented, Dave Adams
sleeping
Sleeping on a lead? I'll let you know tomorrow. Ted Purdy
sleeping
The sleeping disorder, that didn't even come up in trial. I had said something about it, but it had nothing to do with the trial. Keith LeGree
sleeping
It's better than sleeping with the mosquitoes and the bugs. I'll take anything to get there. Carolyn Clark
sleeping
I don't know if he was sleeping or not, ... because he never budged. Joe Torre
sleeping worry
You can't really worry about it. It's nothing that's going to keep me from sleeping at night. Scott Chandler