A Quote by Baltasar Gracian

The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.

Baltasar Gracian

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Always Folly Impatience Impatient Increases Knowledge Wise

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Baltasar Gracian
Spanish - Philosopher
January 8, 1601 - December 6, 1658

Knowledge is a public good and increases in value as the number of people possessing it increases.

John Wilbanks

I find the joy of the 'doing' increases. Creativity increases. Intuition increases. The pleasure of life grows. And negativity recedes.

David Lynch

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that!

Stephen Hawking

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and women.

Lord Kelvin

As my awareness increases, my control over my own being increases.

William Schutz

Large increases in cost with questionable increases in performance can be tolerated only in race horses and fancy women.

Lord Kelvin

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

Friedrich Nietzsche

We've got to make sure our younger workers understand that as life expectancy increases, the retirement date for benefits increases also.

Ken Buck

Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

Paul J. Zak

The value of assets often increases exponentially while the value of your labor only increases incrementally.

Robert Kiyosaki

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases.

Rose of Lima

To the extent that human spirits are made gentle by the social state, sensibility increases; as it increases, the severity of punishment must diminish if one wishes to maintain a constant relation between object and feeling.

Cesare Beccaria

Although Caterpillar has fought vigorously against writing guaranteed pay increases into its contracts - and won, every time - it does offer market-based wage increases. It has also given quarterly bonuses to workers.

Mina Kimes

Technology to me does two things: it increases the velocity of communication and increases the number of people who can participate. That's it. That's really all technology for our entire history has ever done.