“As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book II, Ch. 37
Essais (1595), Book II
“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss”
Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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“Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge.”
Stephen Hawking (1942–2018) British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author
“The loss of what we have is pain more dire
Than not to gain the thing that we desire.”
Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
Che 'l perder l'acquistato e maggior doglia
Che mai non acquistar quel che l'uom voglia.
XXV, 58
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“There's no great loss without some small gain.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie
Source: Little House on the Prairie (1935), Ch. 25; said by Ma, after Pa lost the corn crop to blackbirds but brought home some of the birds for dinner.
“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”
David Bohm (1917–1992) American theoretical physicist
As quoted in New Scientist (February 1993), p. 42
Arthur Calder-Marshall (1908–1992) English novelist, essayist, critic, memoirist and biographer
Mascott, R. D. (pseud. Arthur Calder-Marshall). The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½. London: Jonathan Cape. 1967.
“My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain
When time and God give judgment.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
Faliero, Act V. Sc. 2.
Marino Faliero (1885)
Context: Farewell, and peace be with you if it may.
I have lost, ye have won this hazard: yet perchance
My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain
When time and God give judgment. If there be
Truth, true is this, that I desired the right
And ye with hands as red sustain the wrong
As mine had been in triumph. Have your will:
And God send each no bitterer end than mine.
“The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.”
Ian Fleming book Live and Let Die
Source: Live and Let Die
Alhazen (965–1038) Arab physicist, mathematician and astronomer
Firas al-Khateeb, Lost Islamic History https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Islamic-History-Reclaiming-Civilisation/dp/1849043973