"Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed."
8
"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism."
6
"Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives."
4
"How can smart women be so stupid about men sometimes? Lack of knowledge. It's what men have kept secret for so long."
8
"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
7
"Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame."
6
"It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men."
5
"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."
6
"The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions."
5
"They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy."
5
"Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 200 senior officers of the former Soviet army in Moscow in 1991, among them KGB generals. There, my knowledge of Penkovsky's role was thoroughly confirmed, and so was the Soviet military men's residual sense of humiliation at Khrushchev's 'blink'."
6
"A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men."
5
"Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it."
6
"Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind."
5
"It is the knowledge that all men have weaknesses and that many have vices that makes government necessary."
6
"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."
6
"Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal."
6
"The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things."
5
"God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought."
6
"All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God."
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