“How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.”
Source: Frankenstein
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 94
English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, … 1797–1851Related quotes
Source: Education of a Wandering Man (1989), Ch. 11
Quoted in Ibn Al-Mubârak, Al-Zuhd wa Al-Raqâ`iq Vol.1 p. 156.
“A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.”
The Way of Life, According to Laotzu, 1944.
Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 59).
Preface, The importance of hell in the salvation scheme
Source: 1910s, Androcles and the Lion (1913)
Context: The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
To troops who had abandoned their lines during the Battle of New Orleans (8 January 1815).
1810s