Thomas Brackett Reed: They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge — Thomas Brackett Reed

They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.

Thomas Brackett Reed

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Nec scire fas est omnia. — One cannot know everything. Horace
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking make — John Locke
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. — Khalil Gibran
I want to know God's thoughts — the rest are mere details. — Albert Einstein
Werther had a love for Charlotte, Such as words could never utter; Would you kno — William Makepeace Thackeray
Aimer les femmes intelligentes est un plaisir de pédéraste. — Charles Baudelaire
Olympian bards who sung Divine ideas below, Which always find us young And alway — Ralph Waldo Emerson
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, — Ralph Waldo Emerson
While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love — Friedrich Schiller
Blows are what awaken us and help to break the dream. They show us the insuffici — Swami Vivekananda
We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us ... — Leonardo da Vinci
We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. — Fernando Pessoa