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Charles Caleb Colton A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver.
wise money thinking
Charles Caleb Colton It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
wise art moments
Charles Caleb Colton The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
wise foolish gravity
Charles Caleb Colton Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
wise men thinking
Charles Caleb Colton He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
wise men littles
Charles Caleb Colton We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.
wise men darkness
Charles Caleb Colton As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are, so the sceptic, in a vain attempt to be wise beyond what is permitted to man, plunges into a darkness more deplorable, and a blindness more incurable than that of the common herd, whom he despises, and would fain instruct.
wise men mediocrity
Charles Caleb Colton There are circumstances of peculiar difficulty and danger, where a mediocrity of talent is the most fatal quantum that a man can possibly possess. Had Charles the First and Louis the Sixteenth been more wise or more weak, more firm or more yielding, in either case they had both of them saved their heads.
wisdom heart awareness
Charles Dickens There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
wisdom expectations looks
Charles Dickens Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
wisdom knowledge literature
Charles Caleb Colton We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
wisdom next profit
Charles Caleb Colton The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
wisdom believe errors
Charles Caleb Colton Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
wisdom perfection
Charles Caleb Colton Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.
wisdom character
Charles Caleb Colton The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
wisdom age next
Charles Simmons Most of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
wisdom jesus son
Charles Stanley God has loved you since before you were born-so much so that 2,000 years ago, He sent His Son Jesus to die in your place.
knowledge simplicity complicated
Charles Caleb Colton The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.
knowledge class ferns
Charles Caleb Colton In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.
knowledge performances pretension
Charles Caleb Colton The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.
knowledge perfect brain
Charles Caleb Colton The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
knowledge science two
Charles Caleb Colton Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
knowledge world lifts
Charles Spurgeon Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.
knowledge knows
Alanis Morissette The more I know the less tortured I am.
knowledge tombs knows
David Hilbert Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.
knowledge science knows
David Hilbert We must know. We will know.