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... men know best about everything, except what women know better. More
... to know what one knows is frightening to live what one lives is soothing and though everybody... More
... writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing... More
A boy’s mind is not so easily sullied as a girl’s.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal... More
A demanding stranger arrived one morning in a small town and asked a boy on the sidewalk of the... More
A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the... More
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. More
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. More
A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of... More
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood... More
A man’s ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful,Mwhile his knowledge, so called,... More
A moody child and wildly wise
Pursued the game with joyful eyes,
Which chose, like... More
A scholar without going outside his door can know all the affairs of the world. More
A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for... More
A set of ideas, a point of view, a frame of reference is in space only an intersection, the state... More
A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes,... More
After, when they disentwine
You from me and yours from mine,
Neither can be certain... More
All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses. More
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. More
All I know is reception; I am and I have: but I do not get, and when I fancied I had gotten... More
All knowledge is ambiguous. More
All men by nature desire knowledge. More
All men by nature desire to know. More
All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience. More
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You first have an instinct, then an... More
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. More
All things are known to the soul. More
Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: Since you cannot be judges be... More
Always the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary. More
And all your future lies beneath your hat. More
And oh, I knew, I knew,
And said out loud, I couldn’t bide the smother
And heat so... More
And the truth becomes a hole, something one has always known,
A heaviness in the trees, and... More
And though that other question that I asked and can’t
Remember any more is going to move... More
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and... More
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. More
And yet spend all our life on imprecisions,
That when we start to die
Have no idea why. More
And, in fine, the ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study... More
Any gain
Was made by getting science on the brain;
There was so much more every day to... More
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so... More
As the will to truth thus gains self-consciousness—there can be no doubt of that—morality... More
At first, people stood along the schoolchildren’s path and asked them anxiously, “Tell me, my... More
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things... More
Attending there let us absorb the cultures of nations
And dissolve into our judgement all... More
Away profane philosopher! seekest thou in nature the cause? This refers to that, and that to the... More
Before I knew thee, Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a
man should speak truly, little... More
Berowne. What is the end of study, let me know?
King. Why, that to know which else we should... More
Better to master a small skill than to accumulate a big fortune. More
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. More
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. More
But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only... More
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from... More
But I know, too,
That the blackbird is involved
In what I know. More
But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries—the most obvious things, which come in... More
But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that... More
But the desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of... More
But the house of the prudent countryman will be, of course, a place of honest manners; and... More
But the known?
This, I have had to be given,
a life, love, and from one man
the world. More
But things get darker as we move
To ask them: Whom must we get to know
To die, so you... More
But whether or not a man was asked
To mar the love of two
By harboring woe in the bridal... More
But, in history, practical usefulness never determines the moral value of an achievement. Only... More
By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that... More
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds... More
Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?... More
Children with Hyacinth’s temperament don’t know better as they grow older; they merely know... More
Computerization brings about an essential change in the way the worker can know the world and,... More
Consciousness is the perception of what passes in a man’s own mind. Can another man perceive... More
Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid,... More
Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at... More
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that... More
Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers... More
Do you think the porter and the cook have no anecdotes, no experiences, no wonders for you? Every... More
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. More
Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the... More
Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude!... More
Enough to know no knowing. More
Even the bravest among us rarely possesses the courage for what he really knows. More
Even truthfulness is but one means to knowledge, a ladder—but not the ladder. More
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was... More
Every man has to learn the points of the compass again as often as he awakes, whether from sleep... More
Every moment instructs, and every object: for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been... More
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to... More
Every path to a new understanding begins in confusion. More
Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,—and has wit in it, and instruction... More
Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn’t take any... More
Everyman, I will go with thee, and be thy guide,
In thy most need to go by thy side. More
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is... More
Everywhere we are told that our human resources are all to be used, that our civilization itself... More
Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from... More
Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry.... More
Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have the uncultured souls. More
For also knowledge itself is power. More
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. More
For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize....... More
For lust of knowing what should not be known,
We take the Golden Road to Samarkand. More
For man is but the servant and interpreter of nature: what he does and what he knows is only what... More
For out of olde feldes, as men seith,
Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere;
And out... More
For the purpose of knowledge, one must know how to use that inner current that draws us to a... More
For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing... More
From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only... More
Gain time to lose. More

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