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“Knowledge is praised and desired by multitudes whom her charms could never rouse from the couch of sloth; whom the faintest invitation of pleasure draws away from their studies; to whom any other method of wearing the day is more eligible than the use of books, and who are more easily engaged by any conversation than such as may rectify their notions or enlarge their comprehension.”

May Book Use Pleasure Knowledge Study Conversation Draws Method Notion Engaged Charm Multitudes Invitations Couches Comprehension Sloth Rectify

Book:A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians

Source: A Grammar of the Italian Language: With a Copious Praxis of Moral Sentences. To which is Added an English Grammar for the Use of the Italians

“The nearer a conception comes towards finality, the nearer does the dynamic relation, out of which this concept has arisen, draw to a close. To know is to lose.”

Knows Doe Change Loses Loss Knowledge Draws Concepts Relation Conception Finality

Book:Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus

Source: Fantasia of the Unconscious: Top Novelist Focus

“For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.”

Knows Use Purpose Knowledge Know How Draws Currents Inward

Book:Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

Source: Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two

“Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.”

Mind Different Facts Memories Knowledge Learning Habit Conversation Draws Train Meetings Cards Implications New Car Train Of Thought Meetings Of The Minds

Author:Theodore Zeldin

“It is not enough to say that we cannot know or judge because all the information is not in. The process of gathering knowledge does not lead to knowing. A child's world spreads only a little beyond his understanding while that of a great scientist thrusts outward immeasurably. An answer is invariably the parent of a great family of new questions. So we draw worlds and fit them like tracings against the world about us, and crumple them when we find they do not fit and draw new ones.”

Source: Steinbeck

“It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives.”

May Hard Enough Science Knowledge Draws Curiosity Conclusion Privacy Genes Traits Devoted

Book:The Lives to Come

Source: The Lives to Come

“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

“You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.”

Knows Feels Wells Knowledge Know How Draws Canvas

Book:William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing

Source: William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing