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wisdom understanding intuition
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition. Baruch Spinoza
wisdom blessed power
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred. Arthur Koestler
wisdom power men
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Ayn Rand
wisdom men lips
Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak. Carl Sandburg
wisdom giving forever
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it. C. S. Lewis
wisdom grief yawning
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing.
wisdom science discovery
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. Charles Kettering
wisdom forever waiting
Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot. Baltasar Gracian
wisdom perseverance gone
There's nothing like going on with a thing. Anthony Trollope
literature faces mysterious
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. Arthur Conan Doyle
literature consolation ifs
There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
literature architecture masters
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Bryant H. McGill
literature appreciated rudeness
Good manners are appreciated as much as bad manners are abhorred.
literature rich resources
Few nations match our rich resource of literature. Charles Clarke
literature dresses solicitude
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. Jane Austen
literature incapability university
The University brings out all abilities, including incapability. Anton Chekhov
literature language music-is
Good music is very close to primitive language. Denis Diderot
literature chance viewers
We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them. Brit Hume
contempt dagger five gonna left longer smith thrust year
And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gonna give five years for a Smith Act prosecution or one year for Contempt of Court, but we're gonna kill ya! Julius Rosenberg
contempt control feeling hatred neither quite within
Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control Arthur Schopenhauer
contempt scorn
Everything can be borne except contempt. Voltaire
contempt culture form lack lives lowest ordinary popular reality stuffed truth
The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives -- has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. Carl Bernstein
contempt ignorance man principle prior
There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation. Herbert Spencer