Source: Wall and Water Gardens: With Chapters on the Rock-garden and the Heath-garden
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“The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.”
Source: Understanding media: the extensions of man
“Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.”
“To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
“Knowledge is the only elegance.”
Source: The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871
“To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.”
Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories
“The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.”
Source: Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art
Source: Daniel Deronda
“Knowledge is only potential power.”
Source: Get Rich Collection
“Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.”
“Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.”
Source: The revolution of everyday life
“It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.”
“Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.”
“Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.”
Source: The Autobiography of Michel de Montaigne: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times : His Childhood, Youth, and Prime : His Adventures in Love and Marriage, at Court, and in Office, War, Revolution, and Plague : His Travels at Home and Abroad : His Habits, Tastes, Whims, and Opinions
Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko
“He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”
Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell
“At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.”
Source: Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
“A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.”
Source: Consciousness Explained
Source: Starling on the Heart: Facsimile Reprints, Including the Linacre Lecture on the Law of the Heart
“Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.”
“He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.”
Source: 论è¯
“The cloak of naiveté was the uniform of our success: we didn't know it couldn't be done.”
Source: The Grammar of Science
“Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.”
“All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.”
Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two
“Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle.”
Source: Marriage and Morals
Source: What Nietzsche Taught
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
Source: The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: I. In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin ; [II] In Occasional Lectures and Essays Addressed to the Members of the Catholic University