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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school. ”
Philosophy is for the few. ”
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be. ”
No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. ”
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity. ”
Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. ”
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. ”
Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. ”
Just think in terms of green energy and how much time, money, brain power and policy action has started to pour into green energy, and I think that's wonderful. We're going to need that same kind of effort towards global gridlock if we're going to keep the individual mobility that we all take for granted today. ”
I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard. ”