Jonathan Swift Quotes

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

Jonathan Swift

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• Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Book
  • Hands
  • Saying

• You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • You
  • Peace
  • Hands

• Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Work
  • Business
  • Knowledge

• I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Past
  • Professional
  • Hands

• The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Fear
  • Knowledge
  • Allah

• There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Life
  • World
  • Help

• I always assumed that everyone knew no country would ever be awarded a World Cup without pricey gifts exchanging hands under the tables.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • World
  • Country
  • Hands

• Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

  

  Abraham Clark
  • God
  • Hands
  • Pleasure

• This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Book
  • Hands
  • Pleasure

• Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Men
  • Women
  • True

• The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Self

• If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Country
  • Hands
  • Wealth

• Deficits are like putting dynamite in the hands of children. They can get out of control very quickly.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Control
  • Hands

• Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Knowledge

• With the divine Knowledge of Advaita (non-duality) in you, do whatever you wish; for then no evil can ever come out of you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Knowledge
  • Wish
  • Evil

• Praised be the fathomless universeFor life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;And for love, sweet love-But praise! O praise and praiseFor the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• This is a highly motivated, good country. It is driven by good motives. But it is also a country with an extremely simplistic understanding of world affairs, and with still a high confidence in America’s capacity to prevail, by force if necessary. (...) This is a country of good emotions, but poor knowledge and little sophistication about the world.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Good
  • Country

• You never know how useful even seemingly insignificant knowledge can be.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Knowledge

• There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Knowledge

• No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Faith
  • Knowledge

• Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here, once in a way, and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.

  

  Vance Palmer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

  

  Plato
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Existence

• Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Knowledge

• There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Knowledge
  • Hands
  • Discerning