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"knowledge is destroyed by associating with the base; with equals equality is gained, and with the distinguished, distinction." »The Hitopadesa
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"Progress always involves risk you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base." »Frederick Wilcox
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"Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain; By this the fool commands the wise, The noble with the base complies, The sot assumes the rule of wit, And cowards make the base submit." »Butler
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"Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means." »Lee C. Bollinger
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"The acquisition of knowledge is the mission of research, the transmission of knowledge is the mission of teaching and the application of knowledge is the mission of public service." »James A. Perkins
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"The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him." »Robert Penn Warren
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"Solo homers usually come with no one on base." »Ralph Kiner
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"I base most of my fashion sense on whether or not it itches." »Gilda Radner
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"Emotion is a rotten base for politics." »Dick Francis
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"Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life." »Julia T. Alvarez
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"Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you." »William Blake
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"Houston, uh, Tranquility base here. The Eagle has landed." »Neil Armstrong
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"Edwards missed getting Stearns at third base by an eyeball." »Jerry Coleman
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"I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch." »Gilda Radner
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"When a base fellow cannot vie with another in merit he will attack him with malicious slander." »Sa?di
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"All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." »Barry Switzer
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"That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres -- two doubles and a triple." »Jerry Coleman
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"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development." »Confucius
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"If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, 'Sorry, Mom, but nobody beats me.'" »Leo Durocher
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"knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms." »Kahlil Gibran
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"We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge." »George Will
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"We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge." »George F. Will
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"knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion." »Daniel J. Boorstin
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"Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent." »Vine Deloria
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"Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement." »Johann Georg von Zimmermann
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"knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power." »Jeremy Taylor
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"baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It's an unfair game." »Rod Kanehl
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"Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved." »Juvenal
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"Refrain from doing ill for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds we are all to prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved." »Juvenal
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| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
