If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.
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JEFFREY FRY A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
ALEXANDER POPE A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.
ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance...
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MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember...
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A. A. HODGE If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be l...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he
is ignorant, and it is so much ca...
HORACE MANN Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
DAVID BORENSTEIN Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 Every man naturally desir...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 Frightful this is in a sense, but it is...
SØREN KIERKEGAARD This is an executive of the government out of control. Where does this stop? The government is reach...
BILL GINSBURG I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right -...
S. T. JOSHI The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES A. BALDWIN The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.
TOM SHARPE No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
ELBERT HUBBARD No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one
ELBERT HUBBARD The river of knowledge has no depth.
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE If they projected the fact that they are dangerous any harder, there would be little puddles of "dan...
MERCEDES LACKEY It is a little bit humiliating when I have to say that Chou En-lai to me appears as the most superio...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water...
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CARL GUSTAV JUNG The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.
ARTHUR HELPS The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
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DAVID J. C. MACKAY There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we...
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MEHMET MURAT ILDAN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a m...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The most dangerous silence is the one where the impending danger is more silent than the silence the...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The knowledge of the game for Chris (Hester) has improved so much. He understands the scheme of the ...
JAY THOMAS The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.
W. C. FIELDS There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things t...
SAMUEL JOHNSON A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.
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LEON URIS If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of kno...
MARIA MONTESSORI Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
EDWARD ABBEY The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deser...
ANDREW JACKSON A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as ou...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object i...
H.L. MENCKEN So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there ...
RICHARD PAUL EVANS There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
SAMUEL BUTLER If the act of love is so dangerous, why do people risk so much for it?
HELENE WECKER If we didn't have greed, market economies wouldn't be as innovative as they are. But in my v...
NOURIEL ROUBINI A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who...
FRANK A. CLARK The danger facing us comes not from lack of resources, but from people who insist that we have run o...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acqui...
CRISS JAMI If you think knowledge is dangerous, try ignorance
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PATRICK DEWITT Knowledge is not vast collection of academic degrees but right empowerment of open mind with an enli...
ANUJ SOMANY You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth...
SAMUEL JOHNSON As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth
of the Indies must carry the wealt...
SAMUEL JOHNSON The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too litt...
MARK TWAIN The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too lit...
MARK TWAIN if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.
SEAMUS HEANEY I wish I were stronger and more secure in myself so that I could really spend my life with a guy lik...
GARY SHTEYNGART I think the district is as wide open as it's ever been. Everybody has tapes on each other, so there'...
KEVIN ALKIRE He'll be as fresh as on Saturday night so that probably spells a little bit of danger for us,
CRAIG BELLAMY The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dang...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has bee...
WILLIAM PROXMIRE The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has be...
WILLIAM PROXMIRE The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Fate is the same for the man who holds back, the same if he fights hard. We are all held in a sing...
HOMER Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
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CHARLES DARWIN The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows...
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SOJOURNER TRUTH It is not enough to have a body to be qualified as a man. Animals too have bodies and we don’t cal...
SUNDAY ADELAJA A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
KHALIL GIBRAN A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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TOBSHA LEARNER The man of thought who will not act is ineffective; the man of action who will not think is dangerou...
RICHARD M. NIXON The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerou...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is dangerous sending a young man who is beautiful to Oxford.
DUDLEY RYDER To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essenti...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Man who know little say much. Man who know much say little. -Unknown.
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THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The cradle of every science is surrounded by dead theologians as that of Hercules was with strangled...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY "Learn what is true in order to do what is right" is the summing up of the whole duty of man
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you ha...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spec...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gall...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, s...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Very few, even among those who have taken the keenest interest in the progress of the revolution in ...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more h...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last f...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more ne...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to rea...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact
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