"It is always advisable to perceive clearly our…" — Charles Darwin
"It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance."
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288 Quotes by Charles Darwin
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an…
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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Some few, & I am one, even wish to God, though at the loss of millions of lives, that the…
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If worms have the power of acquiring some notion, however rude, of the shape of an object and over their…
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special…
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in…
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It is well-known that those who have charge of young infants, that it is difficult to feel sure when certain…
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then…
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are…
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The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that…
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Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one…
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
— Gregory Bateson
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Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.
— Agatha Christie
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In a position of this sort, even though the enemy should offer us an attractive bait, it will be advisable…
— Sun Tzu
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These are the experiences I wish to record in this book, which should really be called The Diary of a…
— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
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Marriage is like a three-speed gearbox - affection, friendship, love. It is not advisable to crash your gears and go…
— Peter Ustinov
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In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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I am fully persuaded that thousands of our fellow-men might profit equally by a similar course to mine; but, constitutions…
— William Banting
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Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to…
— Paul Feyerabend
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It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what…
— John Ruskin
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The fact that lately some circles, not less powerful by their small size, have been actively promoting certain theories, as…
— Alfonso Garcia Robles
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It was under a solemn consciousness of the dangers from ecclesiastical ambition, the bigotry of spiritual pride, and the intolerance…
— Joseph Story
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Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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