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Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.

The development of the telescope, together with increased knowledge of things, brought men to see that the earth is not what man had once thought it to be.

A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.

To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

All my knowledge comes from research.