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  • To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things
  • A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
  • If someone knows me and likes me or my work, they're more likely to allow me to tell their story. But it also cuts the other way.
  • Without stirring abroad, one can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window one can see the way of heaven. The further one goes the less one knows.
  • A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.
  • There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
  • One of the great reasons for the popularity of strikes is that they give the suppressed self a sense of power. For once the human tool knows itself a man, able to stand up and speak a word or strike a blow.
  • People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
  • As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
  • The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.
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  • Confucius To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things
    ― Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
    ― Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
    ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
    ― Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Muhammad Ali Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
    ― Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • John Wesley The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.
    ― John Wesley
    British preacher (1703 - 1791)
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  • Kenneth Tynan A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
    ― Kenneth Tynan
    English theater critic and writer (1927 - 1980)
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine A miracle is nothing more or less than this. Anyone who has come into a knowledge of his true identity, of his oneness with the all-pervading wisdom and power, this makes it possible for laws higher than the ordinary mind knows of to be revealed to him.
    ― Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne All the world knows me in my book, and may book in me.
    ― Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Albert Einstein Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
    ― Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Janet Malcolm Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
    ― Janet Malcolm
     
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  • Tom Landry I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.
    ― Tom Landry
    American football player and coach (1924 - 2000)
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  • Cato the Elder I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
    ― Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Epictetus It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
    ― Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Bob Dylan Johnny's in the basement
    Mixing up the medicine
    I'm on the pavement
    Thinking about the government
    The man in the trenchcoat
    Badge out, laid off
    Says he's got a bad cough
    Wants to get it paid off
    Look out kid
    It's somethin' you did
    God knows when
    But you're doin' it again
    Source: Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    ― Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • William Cowper Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
    ― William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • William Cowper Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
    ― William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
    ― Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • Aristophanes Let each man exercise the art he knows.
    ― Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some are free; the German World knows that All are free. The first political form therefore which we observe in History, is Despotism, the second Democracy and Aristocracy, the third, Monarchy.
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    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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