"We owe almost all our knowledge not to……" — Charles Caleb Colton

"We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed"

— Charles Caleb Colton

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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton has 484 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that…
Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number;…
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud…
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but…
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer…
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to…

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We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough… — Niels Bohr
History is a set of lies agreed upon. — Napoleon Bonaparte
What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon Bonaparte
When Brian told me he grew up in New Mexico, I told him I thought it is cool that people… — Terry Bradshaw
Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence. — Henry Mitchell
Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Contemporary philosophers, even the rationalistic minded ones, have on the whole agreed that no one has intelligibly banished the mystery… — William James
I called it ignose, not knowing which carbohydrate it was. This name was turned down by my editor. 'God-nose' was… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
In all matters of opinion and science ... the difference between men is ... oftener found to lie in generals… — David Hume
The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute… — Abraham Lincoln
It is a moot question whether the origin of any kind of property is derived from nature at all. It… — Thomas Jefferson
Though negotiations are a rough game, you should never allow them to become a dirty game. Once you've agreed to… — Victor Kiam

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