“Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.” PersonsLawKnowingToolsAccountsPropertyLawyerExpensiveRemarkableShyApplicationUncertainRight PersonShavingMeddling Book:The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc Source: The Old Curiosity Shop ... With a Frontispiece. From a Painting by Geo. Cattermole, Etc
“The United States, knowing no distinction of her own citizens on account of religion or nationality, naturally believes in a civilization the world over which will secure the same universal laws.” WorldBelieveStatesLawUnitedUnited StatesKnowingAtheismCitizensCivilizationUniversalAccountsPositive AtheismSecureDistinctionNationalityUniversal Laws Author:Ulysses S. Grant
“This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.” WritingMayUseHandsLeftKnowingAccountsInferiorsLeft HandKnowing Myself Author:John Milton
“Quite generally, the familiar, just because it is familiar, is not cognitively understood. The commonest way in which we deceive either ourselves or others about understanding is by assuming something as familiar, and accepting it on that account; with all its pros and cons, such knowing never gets anywhere, and it knows not why.... The analysis of an idea, as it used to be carried out, was, in fact, nothing else than ridding it of the form in which it had become familiar.” ThinkingKnowsWayIdeasFactsFormUsedUnderstandingAcceptingKnowingUnderstoodAccountsAssumingFamiliarUsed To BeAnalysisThoughtfulDeceivingPros And Cons Author:Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night, or even on every night throughout a year. There are in the law a splendour and simplicity and sense of mastery which illuminate a mass of otherwise uninteresting details. But in history the matter is far otherwise. Historical facts, many of them, have an intrinsic value, a profound interest on their own account, which makes them worthy of study, quite apart from any possibility of linking them together by means of causal laws.” YearsMeanMatterFactsTogetherLawScienceNightValuesInterestHistoryKnowingStudyPossibilityPositionParticularPlanetsMassAccountsHistoricalProfoundSimplicityDetailsWorthyAstronomyMasteryEvery NightSplendourIntrinsic ValueGravitationHistorical Facts Author:Bertrand Russell
“I've learned about the inflation range situation. Obviously with our footballs being inflated to the 12.5-pound range, any deflation would then take us under that specification limit. Knowing that now, in the future we will certainly inflate the footballs above that low level to account for any possible change during the game.” GamesLevelsSituationKnowingFootballLimitsLowsAccountsRangeI've LearnedPoundsInflationLow LevelSpecificationsDeflationPossible Change Author:Bill Belichick
“The time of reckoning will at length arrive. And when finallly summoned to the bar of God, to give an account of our stewardship, what plea can we have to urge in our defense, if we remain willingly, and obstinately ignorant of the way which leads to life, with such transcendent means of knowing it, and such urgent motives to its pursuit?” IfsWayGivingMeanKnowingAccountsDefensePursuitBarsIgnorantMotiveUrgesLengthUrgentStewardshipTranscendentReckoning Author:William Wilberforce