It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.
Joseph Wood Krutch
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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. -
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. -
With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on. -
Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds. -
I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.
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- If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
- If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.
- If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
- When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.
- Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.