Quotes with man-knowledge

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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Daniel The greatest Enemy That Man can have, is his Prosperity.
    Source: The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel 13
    Samuel Daniel
    English poet (1562 - 1619)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • Alexander Pope The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The greatest man in history was the poorest.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Elbert Hubbard The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Buffalo Bill The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
    Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Samuel Johnson The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Anatole France The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • William Booth The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
    William Booth
    English Methodist preacher (1829 - 1912)
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  • Blaise Pascal The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
    Source: Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Samuel Johnson The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Josh Billings The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Oscar Wilde The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
    Source: The picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Agatha Christie The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
    Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Jacques-Yves Cousteau The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
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  • Nelson Algren The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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