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The Mere Understanding, However Useful And Indispensable, Is The Meanest Faculty In The Human Mind And The Most To Be Distrusted.
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The mere understanding, however useful and indispensable, is the
meanest faculty in the human mind and the most to be distrusted.
-- T. De Quincey, "On the Knocking at the Gate in _Macbeth_"
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The graveyards are full of indispensable men. -- Charles de Gaulle
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. -- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
Human industry, if left to itself, will naturally find its way to the most useful and profitable employment.
-- Adam Smith...
Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world.
-- Albert Einstei...
DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
This dictionary, however, is a most useful work. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act ii, Sc. 3...
You have an unusual understanding of the problems of human relationship.
You have an unusual understanding of the problems of human relationships.