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“To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.”

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Charles Caleb Colton was an English writer active from 1780 to 1832. Known for his humor and wit, he is particularly recognized for his aphorisms and satirical works. more

“There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.”

Life Trying Made Remember Born Answers Rooms Wonder Knowledge Theory Prepared Bottom Curiosity Curious Quests Forbidden Persuasive

Book:Burning your boats: the collected short stories

Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories

“Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”

Knows Doe Seems Knowledge Materials Proud Mass Mere Humble Rude

Author:William Cowper

“You can't know too much, but you can say too much.”

Knows Knowledge Too Much

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.”

Knowledge Doubt Greater

Book:Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art

“Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.”

Humans May Long Joy Turns Sports Dark Knowledge Power Ignorance Conscience Blind Giants Buried Fabric Pillars Knowledge Is Power Scruples Babylon Unbound

Book:Daniel Deronda

Source: Daniel Deronda

“Knowledge is only potential power.”

Knowledge Power

Book:Get Rich Collection

Source: Get Rich Collection

“More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.”

Men May Real Character Knowledge Conversation Narrative Servant Funeral Formal More Knowledge Real Character Pedigree

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.”

Giving Pleasure Knowledge Cease

Author:John Ruskin

“Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.”

Knowledge Labor Property Possession

Author:Samuel Smiles

“We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.”

Knows Believe Humans May Ends Belief Interest Knowledge Pieces Imagine One Day Species Stupidity Organs Herds Usefulness

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

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