Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.
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Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, / And where we are our learning likewise is.
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Knowledge—that is, education in its true sense— is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities, or panic-stricken leaders.
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All knowledge that is divorced from justice must be called cunning.
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Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward.
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Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge.
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Sin, guilt, neurosis—they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
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In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
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There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.
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A reading-machine, always wound up and going, / He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
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Man is not weak, knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
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All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not.
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’Tis not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise man.
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A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
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To he proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
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Why / do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard / to get some little skill not worth the effort?
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If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it.
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The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.
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The raft of knowledge ferries the worst sinner to safety.
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The acquisition of knowledge always involves the revelation of ignorance—almost is the revelation of ignorance.
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I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.
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A kiss, when all is said, what is it? / An oath that’s given closer than before; / A promise more precise; the sealing of / Confessions that till then were barely breathed; / A rosy dot placed on the i in loving.
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The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.
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“Kiss me. Again. Once more.” Commands to be obeyed when issued by a woman.
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kisses are a better fate / than wisdom.
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We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel.
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The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.
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[Tjhose quite useless articles called “kisses."
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What are kings, when regiment is goiie, / But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?
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A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.
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Men are cruel, but Man is kind.
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It is no bad thing to be a king—to see one’s house enriched and one’s authority enhanced.
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Do not ask me to be land; just ask me to act as though I were.
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Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one’s own the suffering and joys of others.
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Nature, in giving tears to man, confessed that he / Had a tender heart; this is our noblest quality.
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By Chivalries as tiny, / A Blossom, or a Book, / The seeds of smiles are planted— / Which Blossom in the dark.
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Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
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The drying up a single tear has more / Of honest fame, than shedding seas of gore.
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Kindness, n. A brief preface to ten volumes of exaction.
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The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to.
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No humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.
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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.
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Must we kill to prevent there being any wicked? This is to make both parties wicked instead of one.
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It hath the primal eldest curse upon t, A brother’s murder!
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The overfaithful sword returns the user / His heart’s desire at price of his heart’s blood.
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Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
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