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Seek for the boldest color possible, content is irrelevant. — Henri Matisse
Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have… — Herman Melville
Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself. — Harold Pinter
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. — John Fowles
Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home. — Boethius
Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear. — John Selden
Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature… — Immanuel Kant
To be content with death may be better than to desire it. — Thomas Browne
Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections of their author. To confer duration is not always in our power.… — Samuel Johnson
Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying… — Seneca the Younger
Science seems to me to teach in the highest and strongest manner the great truth which is embodied in the Christian conception of entire surrender… — Thomas Huxley
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,… — Samuel Johnson
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability.… — William Stanley Jevons
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can… — Immanuel Kant
Men will not be content to manufacture life: they will want to improve on it. — John Desmond Bernal
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more… — Albert Einstein
Classical thermodynamics ... is the only physical theory of universal content which I am convinced ... will never be overthrown. — Albert Einstein
The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the electrons sitting around… — Robert Andrews Millikan
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the… — William Osler

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