Logo
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Knowledge
category

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. – Mary Wollstonecraft

Category:
Knowledge

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. – Albert Einstein

Category:
Knowledge

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. – Khalil Gibran

Category:
Knowledge

Darrell is really good in the studio. I mean, he has a real working knowledge of how the process works, and what sounds good coming back over tape, and how the stuff works together. – Guy Clark

Category:
Knowledge

Random Quotes

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. – Thomas Malthus

Category:
Equality

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what pull my finger meant the hard way. – Danica McKellar

Category:
Age

My parents loved each other. I was raised in a house of total love and respect. My dad worked very hard and my mother was incredibly devoted to him. I can unequivocally, without any peradventure of doubt, tell you that I was raised with the kind of love that we only dream of. – James Wood

Category:
dad

And a cloud of enraptured, sporting, buzzing little creatures of silk-dust swept or hovered over the undulating picture. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

Category:
Insects