“There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover the infinity of things, the immensity of Nature, the heavens, the earth, and the seas; this is that branch which has taught us religion, moderation, magnanimity, and that has rescued the soul from obscurity; to make her see all things above and below, first and last, and between both; it is this that furnishes us wherewith to live well and happily, and guides us to pass our lives without displeasure and without offence.” FirstsWellsMeanSoulEarthLastsLiteratureHeavenKnowledgeOur LivesSeaTaughtAll ThingsGuidesBranchesInfinityCharmingModerationObscurityTaught UsLive WellOffenceImmensityMagnanimityFirsts And LastsDispleasureAbove And Below Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero
“With Nietzsche, the black pirates' flag appears for the first time on the high sea of German knowledge. (He is) a different man, from a different race, (his,) a new kind of heroism, philosophywith bellicose weapons and armor.” MenFirstsKindDifferentBlackRaceKnowledgeSeaWeaponsFirst TimePhilosophicalFlagsHeroismPirateArmorDifferent RacesHigh Seas Author:Stefan Zweig
“It is what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free, drawn from the cold hard mouth of the world, derived from the rocky breasts forever, flowing and drawn, and since our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.” WorldHardMovingDarkKnowledgeForeverClearImagineSeaColdMouthsHistoricalBreastsSaltSymbolism Book:Poems Source: Poems
“Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.” LifeInspirationalKnowledgeSeaMankindPositiveWindSailSailingVesselNauticalSailing And The SeaThoughts And ThinkingWind BlowingSailing And WindSailing And LoveNorth Wind Author:Augustus Hare
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” KnowsWorldInspirationalMayHas BeensSeemsTruthSuccessScienceFunNatureBoysKnowledgeSeaTrustTruth IsOceanFindingsOrdinaryScientistLaysPhysicsUpliftingNow And ThenShellsMiscellaneousPebblesTruth And LiesMath And ScienceMathematics And ScienceChildren PlayingGreat ScienceGreat ScientistScience PhysicsOcean SeaLike A BoyOceans And SeasSeashoreBeach And OceanBeach OceanBest ScienceKnowing The TruthSea And BeachCool BeachDiscovery And InventionDiscovering The TruthI Know The TruthPebble BeachSea ShellBefore And Now Author:Isaac Newton
“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.” LittlesKnowledgeSeaOceanBeachIslandsOcean SeaOceans And SeasBeach And OceanBeach OceanSea And BeachCool Beach Author:Isaac Bashevis Singer
“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.” DoeScienceGrowsKnowledgeLearningSeaIgnoranceOceanIgnorantIslandsShoreKnowledge And Ignorance Author:John Archibald Wheeler