Inches Quote by Jack Vance Download Open image “An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.” — Jack Vance ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Inches Miles Ten
We certainly have to have a view about knowledge in order to decide whether some version of foreknowledge is necessary for inquiry or whether… — Gail Fine Copy Share Image
If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles. — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is… — Junius Copy Share Image
To realize The value of a sister: Ask someone Who doesn't have one. To realize The value of ten years: Ask a newly Divorced couple. To realize The value of four years: Ask a graduate. To realize The value of one year: Ask a student who Has failed a final exam. To realize The value of nine months: Ask a… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share
Truly, he thought, the way of enlightenment is like unto half a mile of broken glass. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact,… — Lakhdar Brahimi Copy Share Image
If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But its long distance! Ive been told time after time. Nobody seems to understand, when you have something this undeniable and true, it justworks.… — Vipthi Nair Copy Share Image
Conversation! Supple sentences, with first and second meanings and overtones beyond, outrageous challenges with cleverly planned slip-points, rebuttals of elegant brevity; deceptions and guiles,… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
I categorically declare first my absolute innocence, second my lack of criminal intent, and third my effusive apologies. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
This is no science, this is art, where equations fall away to elements like resolving chords, and where always prevails a symmetry either explicit… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
“The dead man's companions at the counter started to their feet, but halted as Voynod with great aplomb turned to face them. "Take care, you dunghill cocks! Notice the fate of your fellow! He died by the power of my magic blade, which is of inexorable metal and cuts rock and steel like butter. Behold!" And Voynod struck out at… — Jack Vance Copy Share
I have often wondered how they manage to get return envelopes which miss, by one-quarter of an inch, fitting the blank you are supposed… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
If we take care of the inches, we will not have to worry about the miles. — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
I’m in, Cat. I’d never leave you. Especially when you’ve got death breathing down your neck.” “Very funny,” I retorted, since Bones was inches… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
This hype word bothers me though It always sounds like an accusation, what does it mean, advertising, column inches in the press? Bands themselves… — Holly Johnson Copy Share Image
Wait on God and He will work, but don't wait in spiritual sulks because you cannot see an inch in front of you! Are… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
There are no more white linen sofas in my house. We have a rule here: Anything below 36 inches has to be brown or… — Candice Olson Copy Share Image
Things on the essential list: vodka, Nine Inch Nails, a steady supply of mortal men, and an all-purpose bitchy attitude. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When you play test cricket, you don't give the Englishmen an inch. Play it tough, all the way. Grind them into the dust. — Donald Bradman Copy Share Image
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book. — Brooks Robinson Copy Share Image
