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“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 Simplicity Complicated Endless Primaries Operations

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.”

Knows Men World Doe Knowledge Ignorance Gains Credit Hiding Awkward Exhibits Pedants Erudition

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“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.”

Found Class Knowledge Produce Particular Climate Pursuit Coins Circulation Pursuit Of Knowledge Ferns

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“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 Highest Performances Mere Pretension

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“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.”

May Has Beens Enjoy Views Knowledge Discovery Standing Fruit Shoulders Observation Former Giants Self Knowledge Comprehensive Forefathers Dwarfs Dwarves Uniting

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.”

Men Knowledge

Book:Justice

Source: Justice

“There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.”

Thinking Knows Men May Said Differences Knowledge He Man

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.”

Ifs Men Persons Doe Differences Knowledge Study He Man Related

Book:Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Booker T. Washington. Thomas Arnold. Erasmus. Hypatia. St. Benedict. Mary Baker Eddy

Source: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Booker T. Washington. Thomas Arnold. Erasmus. Hypatia. St. Benedict. Mary Baker Eddy

“Knowledge has a beginning but no end.”

Ends Knowledge

Book:Yoga: A Gem for Women

Source: Yoga: A Gem for Women

“In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline.”

Men World Kind Children Culture Energy Ability Levels Knowledge Cases Progress Information Exercise Various Educational Former Mature World History Outlines Pastime

Book:The Phenomenology of Mind

Source: The Phenomenology of Mind

“What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.”

Knows Knowledge Fellows Clubs Meat

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.”

Believe Has Beens Half Knowledge Subjects Fellows Useless Other Half Handy

Book:Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son

“Knowledge is a mimic creation.”

Knowledge Creation

Book:Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

Source: Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...

“As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.”

World Firsts Knowledge Generations Duty Possession Stores Predecessors

Book:Lectures on Various Subjects

Source: Lectures on Various Subjects

“When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.”

Firsts Children Doe Soul Desire Heaven Water Moral Knowledge Drink Taste Intellectual Garden Fruit Delicious Glimpse

Book:Slavery

Source: Slavery

“Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.”

Wells May Use Knowledge Instruments Brave

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.”

Ifs Young Knowledge Childhood Burning Faculty Ecstasy Weary Communion Thrill

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.”

Knows Knowledge

Author:Ivan Panin

“What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.”

Knows Knowledge Beach Sand Grain Grains Of Sand

Author:Ivan Panin

“Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.”

Understanding Knowledge Impossible Ignorance Vulnerability Enterprise Collectives

Book:Outlander: Short Stories and Essays

Source: Outlander: Short Stories and Essays

“Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.”

Quality Knowledge Excellent Suspects Omniscience

Book:Interred with Their Bones

Source: Interred with Their Bones

“What a man does not understand, he does not possess.”

Men Doe Knowledge

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.”

Nations Voice Knowledge Fugue

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.”

Ideas Growth Knowledge Remains Arise Organized Maxims

Book:The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

Source: The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe

“The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.”

People Thinking Men Hands Known Knowledge Pieces Every Man Folly Compelled

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.”

People Age Knowledge Too Much Intelligent Old Age Sensible Despise Self Knowledge

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.”

Age Individual Knowledge All Time Poison

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.”

Real Known Knowledge Masters Draws Evolve Scholar

Book:Maxims and Reflections

Source: Maxims and Reflections

“Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.”

Belief Knowledge Technology Ethics Spite Personal Beliefs

Author:Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

“Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.”

Knowledge Bears Creator Witness

Book:Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo

Source: Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo

“All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.”

Knowledge Perception Offspring

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)

“The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.”

Knows Desire Knowledge Imagine Tiny Allowing Clue Initials Desire For Knowledge

Book:Remembrance of Things Past

Source: Remembrance of Things Past

“Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.”

World Song Knowledge Darkness Plunge

Book:The Mists of Avalon

Source: The Mists of Avalon

“This desire of knowledge and the wonder which it hopes to satisfy are the driving power behind all the changes that we, with careless, question-begging inference, call progress.”

Desire Behinds Wonder Knowledge Progress Driving Careless Begging Inference

Book:Philosophy

Source: Philosophy

“Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.”

Wisdom Knowledge Bounds

Book:Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist

Source: Twilight of the Idols and the Antichrist

“There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.”

Knowledge Greater Words Of Wisdom Drink Meat Buying Peril Wise Man Once Said Greek Philosopher Inspirational Education

Book:The Portable Plato

Source: The Portable Plato

“Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.”

Men Needs Feels Enough Knowledge Students Old Man More Knowledge

Author:Sivananda

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.”

Knows Knowledge Knowing True Knowledge

Author:Socrates

“I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.”

Thinking Felt Knowledge Bird Winter Naked Nuts Squirrels

Author:Stephen Vincent Benet

“Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.”

“One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.”

Views Knowledge Subjects Objects Research Simplicity Point Of View Programming Department Statistics Principal Theoretical

Author:J. Willard Gibbs

“Truth is the recognition of reality; reason, man's only means of knowledge, is his only standard of truth.”

Men Mean Reason Reality Truth Knowledge Truth Is Standards Recognition Novelists Famous Women

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“As knowledge increases, the verdict of yesterday must be reversed today, and in the long run the most positive authority is the least to be trusted.”

Long Running Today Knowledge Authority Increase Yesterday Trusted Long Runs Verdict

Author:Hugh Nibley

“There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.”

Chance Knowledge Learning Share Management Significant Iphone

Author:Steve Ballmer

“Google's not a real company. It's a house of cards.”

Real House Company Knowledge Learning Stupid Management Cards Google House Of Cards

Author:Steve Ballmer

“Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.”

Years Book Hours Knowledge Week Fields Work Out Chosen Fifty Guarantees

Author:Brian Tracy

“The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given - all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.”

“The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.”

States Known Knowledge Limits Discovery Regions Immense Provision Conventionality

Author:Louis de Broglie

“Ignorance is never better than knowledge”

Knowledge Ignorance Knowledge And Ignorance

Author:Enrico Fermi

“Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.”

Care Knowledge Judgment Plenty Sane Diligence Technical Knowledge

Author:Albrecht Durer

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