“Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.” KnowledgeMillionsDemocracyIgnoranceTenVoteElectionCollectivism Author:Klemens von Metternich
“What matters it that man should have a little more knowledge of the universe? If he has it, he gets little higher. Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?” IfsMenShouldYearsLittlesEndsMatterLastsUniverseKnowledgeOur LivesHigherTenShould HaveEternityInfinityWhat MattersDurationMore Knowledge Book:Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works Source: Thoughts, Letters & Minor Works
“I believe the alphabet is no longer considered an essential piece of equipment for traveling through life. In my day it was the keystone to knowledge. You learned the alphabet as you learned to count to ten, as you learned "Now I lay me" and the Lord's Prayer and your father's and mother's name and address and telephone number, all in case you were lost.” BelieveMotherFatherNamesLostI BelievePrayerNumbersLordKnowledgeCasesPiecesTenEssentialsLaysAddressesEquipmentTelephonesAlphabetKeystones Book:One Writer's Beginnings Source: One Writer's Beginnings
“The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.” ThinkingKnowsMenYearsDoneMomentsPastKnowledgeHe ManTenPresent Moment Book:Plays by Susan Glaspell Source: Plays by Susan Glaspell
“We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.” WholeGodGovernmentTruthPoliticalNationsReligiousFreedomMoralPrinciplesKnowledgeTenBibleCapacityConstitutionCommandmentsUs HistoryTen CommandmentsMoral Principles Author:James Madison
“This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as unworked now as it was in the days of Plato, is, in simple truth, ten times more important to humanity than all the chemistry and physics, all the technical and indsutrial science that ever has been or ever will be discovered.” Has BeensImportantSciencePurposeHumanitySimpleKnowledgeMissingMinesTenPhysicsPracticalsBiologyChemistryPlatoAnthropologyHereditySimple Truths Author:George Herbert
“I have flown twice over Mount St. Helens out on our West Coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that that one little mountain has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so concerned about.” PeopleKnowsWorldYearsKindLittlesHas BeensFunnyLastsSciencePoliticsKnowledgeFiguresTenMountainConcernedScientistWestDrivingAtmosphereSuspicionCoastAutomobileWest CoastSulfur Author:Ronald Reagan
“If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.” PeopleIfsThinkingInspirationalYearsTermKnowledgeTeachLearningTeacherTreeTeachingTenPlantSeedsTaoismBest TeacherHappy New YearPlant A TreeTeachers And TeachingChinese Philosophy Author:Confucius
“In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.” MatterLightDarkNumbersKnowledgeIgnoranceTenThirdsFactorsGradesGalaxyRatiosSpiralsKindergartenLight And DarkThird Grade Author:Vera Rubin
“We are entitled to personal revelation, especially when it concerns our own or our children's lives and what has been foreordained for them. This is true whether our children number one or ten, and whether the Lord sends them to us through natural means or adoption. This is a glorious knowledge.” LifeMeanChildrenHas BeensNaturalNumbersLordKnowledgeTenConcernOur ChildrenGloriousRevelationsAdoptionEntitledPersonal Revelation Author:Richard M. Eyre