When we are tired,
we are attacked by ideas
we conquered long ago.
(Nietzsche.)
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When we are tired,
we are attacked by ideas
we conquered long ago.
(Nietzsche.)
I pay the schoolmaster,
but it’s the schoolboys
that educate my son.
(Emerson: Journal.)
Those who are slow to know
suppose that slowness
is the essence of knowledge.
(Nietzsche: The Gay Science.)
The things we know best
are the things we haven’t been taught.
(Vauvenargues: Reflections and Maxims.)
The cherubim know most;
the seraphim love most.
(Emerson: Essays.)
Ole man Know-All died las’ year.
(Joel Chandler Harris: Plantation Proverbs.)
Nothing was ever learned
by either side in a dispute.
(Hazlitt: On the Conversation of Authors.)
Martyrs create faith more
than faith creates martyrs.
(Unamuno: The Tragic Sense of Life.)
Violent men reel
from one extremity to another.
(Thomas Fuller (I): The Holy State & the Profane State.)
He who knows only his own side
of the case knows little of that.
(John Stuart Mill: On Liberty.)