Related Quotes
All quotes about:
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
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. Charles Caleb Colton
learning ignorance knowledge
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it. Alan Watts
learning evolution programming
Optimization hinders evolution. Alan Perlis
learning nouns programming
Any noun can be verbed. Alan Perlis
learning thinking language
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming. Alan Perlis
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. Alan Perlis
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program. Alan Perlis
learning
I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums. Nolan Sotillo
learning thinking brain
I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active. Beverley Mitchell
pissed-off action bigs
If I missed out on some really big action, I’m going to be royally pissed off! Becca Fitzpatrick
pissed-off would-be hell
If somebody ever wished to be me for a day, they'd be the most pissed-off person once they got here. They would be, like, in hell. Jennifer Aniston
pissed-off
I am completely pissed off that I'm circumcised. Howard Stern
pissed-off world bits
So anybody with any bit of intelligence has got to be pissed off because if they see how things are in the world, they're not going to be happy with it. Marilyn Manson
pissed-off duty humans
It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off Eric Bogosian
pissed-off okay justify
You don't have to justify everything. Being pissed off is just absolutely okay. Tori Amos
pissed-off justify
You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok. Tori Amos
pissed-off
It's better to be pissed off than pissed on. Shawn Michaels
pissed-off i-can
I can get pissed off very easily. Richard Matheson