Quotes with man-knowledge

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  • Seneca The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Augustus William Hare The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Richard Cecil The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • John Ruskin The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Abraham Cowley The first three men in the world were a gardener, a ploughman, and a grazier; and if any man object that the second of these was a murderer, I desire he would consider that as soon as he was so, he quitted our profession and turned builder.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Sean O'Casey The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Helen Rowland The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Anatole France The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • William Shakespeare The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
    Source: As you like it
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Buddha The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Leon Blum The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
    Leon Blum
    French politician
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  • Barbara Deming The free man must be born before freedom can be won, and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won. It will come into being only if we build it out of our very muscle and bone - by trying to act it out.
    Source: Two essays: On anger, New men, new women : some thoughts on nonviolence
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Robert Benchley The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Albert Einstein The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Henry Miller The gap between knowledge and truth is infinite.
    Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch Ch. 10
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • George Borrow The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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