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“Roger_Bacon" title="Roger Bacon">Roger Bacon expressed a feeling which afterwards moved many minds, when he said that if he had the power he would burn all the works of the Stagirite, since the study of them was not simply loss of time, but multiplication of ignorance. Yet in spite of this outbreak every page is studded with citations from Aristotle, of whom he everywhere speaks in the highest admiration.”

Ifs Mind Said Feelings Speak Loss Study Ignorance Highest Pages Moved Spite Admiration Roger Multiplication Outbreaks Citations

Author:George Henry Lewes

“Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.”

Should Wisdom Grows Wealth Loss Fame Highest Gains Increase Train Insignificant

Author:Gautama Buddha

“A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else.”

Winning Loss Company Leader Cutting Highest Payback

Book:Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book

Source: Winning: The Ultimate Business How-To Book

“The culture and educational system of the contemporary West are based almost exclusively upon the training of the reasoning brain and, to a lesser degree, of the aesthetic emotions. Most of us have forgotten that we are not only brain and will, senses and feelings; we are also spirit. Modern man has for the most part lost touch with the truest and highest aspect of himself; and the result of this inward alienation can be seen all too plainly in his restlessness, his lack of identity and his loss of hope.”

“If we aim to act in harmony with the laws of Good, we rise above all other laws and become a law unto ourselves; co-workers with God and helpers in nature. Ours is the privilege, ours the loss, if we fail to live up to our highest possibilities.”

Ifs Law Loss Failing Possibility Highest Harmony Aim Workers Privilege Rise Above Helpers Co Worker

Book:Simplified Scientific Astrology

Source: Simplified Scientific Astrology

“Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.”

Giving Culture Loss Highest Improvement Obedience Impulse Passive Maxims Ardent Life Wisdom Fetters Quench

Book:Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German

Source: Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German

“We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss of species anywhere in the world, they're important.”

World Important Country Reason Law Loss Protect Highest Species Environmental Biodiversity

Author:Richard Di Natale

“The highest act of love is the giving of the best gift, and, if necessary, at the greatest cost, to the least deserving. That's what God did. At the loss of His Son's life to the totally undeserving, God gave the best gift - the display of the glory of Christ who is the image of God.”

Ifs Giving Christ Loss Love Is Son Cost Highest Glory Display Serving God Valentine Valentine's Day Deserving God Image Acts Of Love Good Friday Best Gift Undeserving

Author:John Piper

“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”