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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
straws
Oft stumbles at a straw. Edmund Spenser
worthy
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest. Denis Waitley
worth-it
It was wrong. But it was worth it. Ann Brashares
worth
When the well's dry, they know the worth of water. Source Unknown
worth
We actually renovated it so we could show about $20,000 worth of merchandise here.
worthy
We're doing what we can. We think it's a worthy cause.
worth
When a thing is not worth overdoing, leave it alone!
worthy
potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself. Joseph Kahn
worth
One Mend-fault is worth two Findfaults, but one Findfault is better than two Makefaults Benjamin Franklin
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No, I didn't worry. But it was worth it. Melissa Etheridge