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Knowledge
«A man's errors are his portals of discovery.»
Author: James Joyce
| About:
Education,
Experience,
Knowledge,
Mistakes
| Keywords:
errors, portal, portals
«Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.»
Author: Sparky Anderson
| About:
Baseball,
Knowledge,
Sports
| Keywords:
Casey, fooling, fool around, move around, moving around
«Charles V said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.»
«A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.»
Author: Thomas C. Haliburton
(Writer)
| About:
Ignorance,
Knowledge,
Men,
Self-knowledge
| Keywords:
astonished, gross
«A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.»
Author: Sir Robert Baden-Powell
(Army Officer)
| About:
Knowledge,
Scouting
| Keywords:
scout, scouting, Scouts, surprise, unexpected
«But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.»
«Better know nothing than half-know many things»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| About:
Knowledge
| Keywords:
best-known, better half, half, know nothing