Quotes with man-knowledge

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  • Samuel Butler All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Butler All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Meister Eckhart All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of your first.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Derek Jarman All men are homosexual, some turn straight. It must be very odd to be a straight man because your sexuality is hopelessly defensive. It's like an ideal of racial purity.
    Derek Jarman
    British movie maker, artist, writer (1942 - 1994)
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  • Cato the Elder An orator is a good man who is skilled in speaking.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Oscar Wilde An ordinary man away from home giving advice.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Jean Arp Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
    Jean Arp
    German-French sculptor, painter, poet (1886 - 1966)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Albert Schweitzer As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Backbite. To ''speak of a man as you find him'' when he can't find you.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Alfred E. Smith Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
    Alfred E. Smith
    American politician (1873 - 1944)
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  • Alfred Marshall But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money is better measured for some purposes in labour than in commodities.
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  • William Shakespeare By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death ... and let it go which way it will, he that dies this year is quit for the next.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Albert Camus Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Alighieri Dante Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Andre Breton Dali is like a man who hesitates between talent and genius, or, as one might once have said, between vice and virtue.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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