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Knowledge2 quotes
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be. — William Thomson, Lord Kelvin · 1883When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science. — William Thomson, Lord Kelvin · 1883America1 quote
The government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States. — James Bryce · 1888American Presidency1 quote
Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always explain, how it happens that this great office, the greatest in the world, unless we except the Papacy, to which any man can rise by his own merits, is not more frequently filled by great and striking men. — James Bryce · 1888American politics1 quote
Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always explain, how it happens that this great office, the greatest in the world, unless we except the Papacy, to which any man can rise by his own merits, is not more frequently filled by great and striking men. — James Bryce · 1888Beauty and aging1 quote
As a white candle
In a holy place,
So is the beauty
Of an aged face. — Joseph Campbell (poet) · 1913City politics1 quote
The government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States. — James Bryce · 1888Courage1 quote
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. — C.S. Lewis · 1942Epistemology1 quote
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science. — William Thomson, Lord Kelvin · 1883Grief1 quote
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. — C.S. Lewis · 1961Hell1 quote
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. — C.S. Lewis · 1942Housework and homemaking1 quote
It is surely in reality the most important work in the world. What do ships, railways, mines, cars, government etc. exist for except that people may be fed, warmed, and safe in their own homes? — C.S. Lewis · 1955Jesus1 quote
Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But don't let us come with any patronising nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He hasn't left that open to us. He didn't intend to. — C.S. Lewis · 1942Love1 quote
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. — C.S. Lewis · 1944Mathematics1 quote
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science. — William Thomson, Lord Kelvin · 1883Mourning1 quote
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. — C.S. Lewis · 1961Nature of love1 quote
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. — C.S. Lewis · 1944Nature of time1 quote
We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. — C.S. Lewis · 1942Numbers1 quote
When you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind: it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science. — William Thomson, Lord Kelvin · 1883Old age1 quote
As a white candle
In a holy place,
So is the beauty
Of an aged face. — Joseph Campbell (poet) · 1913The future1 quote
We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. — C.S. Lewis · 1942The human condition1 quote
We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. — C.S. Lewis · 1942Time1 quote
We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. — C.S. Lewis · 1942Virtues1 quote
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. — C.S. Lewis · 1942