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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
proportion
There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists. Austin O'Malley
proportion
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
proportion given form
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life. Alice James
proportion humour
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. Khalil Gibran
proportion realised
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. Mahatma Gandhi
proportion music-is whole
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. Orlando Gibbons
proportion wells traveller
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place. Henry Fielding
proportion free-time direct
Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time. Mike Dunlap
proportion reached traffic volume
The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary.
objects ifs
What would you do if money was no object? Alan Watts
objects overload places provide relaxation technology
Museums provide places of relaxation and inspiration. And most importantly, they are a place of authenticity. We live in a world of reproductions - the objects in museums are real. It's a way to get away from the overload of digital technology. Thomas P. Campbell
objects shells sweep washed
A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean.
objects seen
One of the most beautiful objects I have ever seen was a Yupik wolf mask, made in Nunivak in around 1890. John Burnside
objects
Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.
objects
Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects. Hasso Plattner
objects
Faith is only as good as the object in which it is placed. Erwin W. Lutzer
objects dies
I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object. Julie Harris
objects
Don't object so much, you'll live longer. Michael Nesmith