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“I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.”

Knows Men Littles Sometimes Desire Principles Knowledge Useless Superficial Maxims Superficial Knowledge

Book:La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims

“Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.”

Way Soul Sometimes Hard Feelings Wisdom Seems Certain Time Strong Change Ability Known Knowledge Strength Capable Extremes Cruelty Length Strong Feeling

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.”

Ifs Knows Sometimes Time Knowledge Another Time

Author:Francis Bacon

“I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.”

Way Long Sometimes Philosophy Order Knowledge Philosophical Distance Long Distance Distance Relationship

Book:At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story

Source: At Home at the Zoo: Homelife and the Zoo Story

“Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.”

Giving Sometimes Peace Knowledge Memorable

Book:Composing a Life

Source: Composing a Life

“It makes no sense to seek a single best way to represent knowledge-because each particular form of expression also brings its particular limitations. For example, logic-based systems are very precise, but they make it hard to do reasoning with analogies. Similarly, statistical systems are useful for making predictions, but do not serve well to represent the reasons why those predictions are sometimes correct.”

Way Wells Sometimes Hard Reason Form Knowledge Example Particular Expression Logic Best Way Limitation Reason Why Reasoning Precise Predictions Analogies

Author:Marvin Minsky

“Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.”

Children Sometimes Age Enemy Knowledge Treated Companion Introducing Acquaintance Renounce Captives Hostage Respect Her

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

“But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men.”

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

“He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.”

Sometimes Science Time Knowledge Air Mines Breathing Miners

Author:Isaac Newton

“It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.”

Knows Important Sometimes Science Forget Knowledge Know How Accounts Importance

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to fill well-recognized and predetermined requirements. It more often happens that the acquirement of knowledge of the previously unknown properties of a material suggests its trial for some new use. These facts strongly indicate the value of knowledge of properties of materials and indicate a way for research.”

“Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a few paces ahead. Occasionally the fog lifts, an eminence is gained, and a wider stretch of territory can be surveyed-sometimes with startling results. A whole science may then seem to undergo a kaleidoscopic rearrangement, fragments of knowledge sometimes being found to fit together in a hitherto unsuspected manner. Sometimes the shock of readjustment may spread to other sciences; sometimes it may divert the whole current of human thought.”

“You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it.”

Knows Sometimes Matter Science Speak Causes Knowledge Praying Essentials Notion More Time Gravity Inherent

Book:Newton: Philosophical Writings

Source: Newton: Philosophical Writings

“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

“Sometimes, we just don't know enough about what we are trying to achieve.”

Knows Trying Sometimes Enough Goal Knowledge Achieve Achievement

Author:Stuart Wilde

“I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.”

Men Feels Sometimes Science Turns Felt Knowledge Findings Areas Experience Riches Certainty Renaissance Unexplored Absolute Certainty Knowledge And Experience Renaissance Man

Author:Polykarp Kusch