Nathanael Greene Quotes

Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness.

Nathanael Greene

• Knowledge
• Learning
• Integrity

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• I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Kids
  • Nice
  • Myself

• I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

  

  Patrick Chan
  • Legacy
  • Sport
  • Creatively

• If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Against

• Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Israel
  • Bank
  • West

• As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Long
  • You
  • Education

• I do a lot for PETA. I do a lot of things I think are really important, I volunteer at school and I'm still amazed I can pay my bills because I feel like I don't work that much, I really don't.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Work
  • Important
  • School

• I always try to preserve my cinematographic style, even while I work in the US. I wish to always be European.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Style

• Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Industry
  • Cosign

• Britain is a textbook case of how growing inequality leads to economic crisis. The years before the crash were marked by a sharp rise in remortgaging and the growth of 0 percent balance transfer credit cards. By 2008 the UK had the highest ratio of household debt to GDP of any major economy.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Growing
  • Growth
  • Balance

• It happened one day, about noon, going towards my boat, I was exceedingly surprised with the print of a man's naked foot on the shore, which was very plain to be seen on the sand.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Boat

• And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Moments
  • Couple
  • Dog

• Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.

  

  Kin Hubbard

• As for ourselves, yes, we must be meek, bear injustice, malice, rash judgment. We must turn the other cheek, give up our cloak, go a second mile.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Up

• When an executive walked on our floor, it was at their own risk. As far as what others thought of working for me, I know I was very tough at times, and would storm down the hall after watching some bad animation from Korea. But overall, I feel we had a good time.

  

  Joe Murray
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

  

  Ariel Rechtshaid
  • Trying

• I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.

  

  Ryan Tedder OneRepublic
  • True
  • Song
  • Car

• For me, I feel like I relate to a lot of people.

  

  Kris Allen
  • People

• The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Self-knowledge

• By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.

  

  William Osler
  • Character
  • Fighting
  • Virtue

• Practice is a shared history of learning. Practice is conversational. 'Communities of Practice' are groups of people who share a concern (domain) or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better (practice) as they interact regularly (community).

  

  Etienne Wenger
  • History
  • Learning
  • Passion

• I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Great
  • Real

• I think when one becomes very close to another person, it can mean loving and intimacy, but on the other hand, there's also the danger of one destructing another under the name of love. I think that is the scariest thing for me in various relationships.

  

  Bong Joon-ho
  • Hand
  • Intimacy

• Learning is not virtue but the means to bring us an acquaintance with it. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Let these be your motives to action through life, the relief of the distressed, the detection of frauds, the defeat of oppression, and diffusion of happiness.

  

  Nathanael Greene
  • Knowledge
  • Learning
  • Integrity