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wisdom wise
He is wise that is wise to himself. Euripides
wisdom cards dice
You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning. Richard Baxter
wisdom prayer giving
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. This prayer was first printed in a monthly bulletin of the Federal Council of Churches and has become enormously popular. It has been circulated in millions of copies. Reinhold Niebuhr
wisdom doubt orthodoxy
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.
wisdom knowledge knowing
Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. Woody Allen
wisdom fowl righteous
Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.
wisdom greatness men
Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none William Wordsworth
wisdom children knees
Wisdom sits with children round her knees.
wisdom trying complicated
Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask. Rebecca Taylor
knowledge love mainly power pursuit
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power Bertrand Russell
knowledge deals known
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven. Richard P. Feynman
knowledge men ideas
According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective. William Whewell
knowledge possession labor
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own. Samuel Smiles
knowledge knows
Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. Richard Francis Burton
knowledge proportion objects
The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
knowledge giving mind
Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge. Samuel Johnson
knowledge painting tradition
All of my knowledge, of both science and religion, I incorporate into the classical tradition of my painting. Salvador Dali
knowledge
Our knowledge, is our power, and God our strength. Robert Southey
literature great-work genre
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. Walter Benjamin
literature records discontent
literature is the record of our discontent. Virginia Woolf
literature motto following
To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue. Vladimir Nabokov
literature moral censorship
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. William O. Douglas
literature prophet prove
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison
literature london able
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful. George Andrew Olah
literature lasts should
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. James Russell Lowell
literature merit findings
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment. Lord Byron
literature stories short-story
The short story is the literature of the nomad. John Cheever