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“In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.”

Knows May Turns Knowledge Masters Please Interfere

Author:Plato

“Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters.”

Knows Knowledge Creation Masters Limits Worldly Enslavement Deference

Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment

Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment

“Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.”

Remember Knowledge Masters Foundation Lays Breathe Eighteen

Book:The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author

“The Commonwealth of Learning is not at this time without Master-Builders, whose mighty Designs, in advancing the Sciences, will leave lasting Monuments to the Admiration of Posterity; But every one must not hope to be a Boyle, or a Sydenham; and in an Age that produces such Masters, as the Great-Huygenius, and the incomparable Mr. Newton, with some other of that Strain; 'tis Ambition enough to be employed as an Under-Labourer in clearing Ground a little, and removing some of the Rubbish, that lies in the way to Knowledge.”

Source: The Works of John Locke: Philosophical Works, with a Preliminary Essay and Notes by J. A. St. John

“To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it, and thus to know anything you must know all.”

Knows Lying Next Knowledge Masters Branches

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.”

Would Be Able Education Knowledge Learning Teaching Masters Losing Chinese Superior Man

Book:Lun Yü

Source: Lun Yü

“Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.”

Men Mind Made Poetry Knowledge Poet Masters Drink Ordinary Streams Ordinary Man Poetry By Famous Poets

Author:Sigmund Freud

“In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.”

Enough Certain Order Knowledge Masters Broads Application Breadth Specialty

Author:Ralph Washington Sockman

“During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.”

Knows Men Stills Science Knowledge Century Fields Masters Unusual Attainment Newton Scientific Knowledge

Book:The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences

Source: The Intelligent Man's Guide to the Physical Sciences

“Learn the leading precognita of all things-no need to turn over leaf by leaf, but grasp the trunk hard and you will shake all the branches. Advice cherished by Samuel Johnson that that, if one is to master any subject, one must first discover its general principles.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Hard Turns Principles Knowledge Advice Subjects Masters All Things Branches Shakes Over It Leafs Johnson Trunks

Author:Samuel Johnson

“We often observe in lawyers, who as Quicquid agunt homines is the matter of law suits, are sometimes obliged to pick up a temporary knowledge of an art or science, of which they understood nothing till their brief was delivered, and appear to be much masters of it.”

Art Sometimes Matter Law Science Understanding Knowledge Masters Picks Understood Lawyer Suits Temporary Obliged

Book:The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished

“The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to understand nature, if we want to master our physical surroundings, then we must use all ideas, all methods, and not just a small selection of them.”

Ifs Want Ideas Use Science Understanding Results Knowledge Masters Method Separation Artificial Selection Surroundings Advancement Detrimental

Author:Paul Feyerabend

“Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.”

Force Knowledge Laughing Masters Mechanic More Knowledge

Book:Selected poetry and prose

Source: Selected poetry and prose

“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