Quotes with man-knowledge

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  • Meister Eckhart The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Avicenna The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
    Avicenna
    Persian polymath (0 - 1037)
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  • Lord Chesterfield The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lord George Byron The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Booker T. Washington The last I heard of the young man in question, he was trying to eke out a miserable existence as a book agent while he was looking about for a position somewhere with the Government as a janitor or for some other equally humble occupation.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • James Thurber The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms - hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abraham Cowley The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Carl Sagan The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The life of man is a journey; a journey that must be traveled, however bad the roads or the accommodation.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bertrand Russell The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • David Hume The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
    Source: On Suicide
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Milan Kundera The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The little man is still a man.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • John Heywood The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.
    John Heywood
    English writer, playwright and poet (1497 - 1580)
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