Quotes with not-so-fun

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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Kircher lays it down as a certain principle, that there never was any people so rude which did not acknowledge and worship one supreme Deity.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • King George III Knavery seems to be so much a the striking feature of its inhabitants that it may not in the end be an evil that they will become aliens to this kingdom.
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  • Plato Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Alexander Pope Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Lao-Tzu Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Carl Sagan Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is coordinated and used.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Anthea Turner Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.
    Anthea Turner
    English television presenter (1960 - )
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  • Lucille Ball Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
    Lucille Ball
    American actress, producer (1911 - 1989)
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  • Plato Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Kahlil Gibran Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Knowledge in war is very simple, being concerned with so few subjects, and only with their final results at that. But this does not make its application easy.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Edward. E. Cummings Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
    Edward. E. Cummings
    American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright (1894 - 1962)
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  • Ralph J. Cudworth Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
    Ralph J. Cudworth
    English clergyman
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  • George Santayana Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Knowledge must be so absorbed into the mind that it ceases to exist in a separate, objective way. ...in 1797 the secret of the effectiveness of resisting to the last had not yet been discovered.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Knowledge of the world in 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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