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Thorough Knowledge Quotes

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all. Leonardo da Vinci
Oh! certainly," cried his faithful assistant, "no one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with. A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; and besides all this, she must possess a certain something in her air and manner of walking, the tone of her voice, her address and expressions, or the word will be but half-deserved."All this she must possess," added Darcy, "and... Jane Austen
god grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that anybody may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country! Benjamin Franklin
It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language Jane Austen
John Locke quote: "The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. John Locke
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men. Helen Keller
Arthur Erickson quote: "We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early..."
We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. Arthur Erickson
John Locke quote: "The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it."
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. John Locke
Theodore Roosevelt quote: "A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college..."
A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education. Theodore Roosevelt
Aristotle quote: "The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of..."
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. Aristotle
The truth is that science started its modern career by taking over ideas derived from the weakest side of the philosophies of Aristotle's successors. In some respects it was a happy choice. It enabled the knowledge of the seventeenth century to be formularised so far as physics and chemistry were concerned, with a completeness which has lasted to the present time. But the progress of biology and psychology has probably been checked by the uncritical assumption of half-truths. If science is... Alfred North Whitehead
Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness, and watchfulness. John Ruskin
A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand his subject; if he does not attempt to break down his knowledge to fit the child's mind, he does not understand teaching. Fulton J. Sheen

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