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Knowledge Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
- Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
- The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
- Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has…
- Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order…
- Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of…
- 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…
- A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know,…
- 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,…
- 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…
- It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing…
- Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.
- Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
- Doubt is the vestibule which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom; therefore, when we are in doubt and puzzle…
- Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect; But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by…
- Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
- Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
- We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
- He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
- That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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