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  • It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Knowledge Quotes
  • The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place our felicity in knowledge, as we forget our mortality: the second, that we make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, and not distates or repining: the third, that we do not presume by the contemplation of Nature to attain to the mysteries of God.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Giving Quotes
  • The intellect searches out the Absolute order of things as they stand in the mind of God, and without the colors of affection. The intellectual and the active powers seem to succeed each other, and the exclusive activity of the one generates the exclusive activity of the other. There is something unfriendly in each to the other, but they are like the alternate periods of feeding and working in animals; each prepares and will be followed by the other.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Animal Quotes
  • But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Humility Quotes
  • Wonder... and not any expectation of advantage from its discoveries, is the first principle which prompts mankind to the study of Philosophy, of that science which pretends to lay open the concealed connections that unite the various appearances of nature.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Knowledge Quotes
  • Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Knowledge Quotes , Science Quotes
  • We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Believe Quotes , Knowledge Quotes