A Quote by Michel de Montaigne

As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.

Michel de Montaigne

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As Far As Chance Far Go Knowledge More Physicians Than Valuable

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Michel de Montaigne
French - Philosopher
February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

But isn't the knowledge that comes from experience more valuable than the knowledge that doesn't? It seems fairly obvious to some of us that a lot of scholars need to go outside and sniff around - walk through the grass, talk to the animals. That sort of thing.

Benjamin Hoff

Barack and I were both raised by families who didn't have much in the way of money or material possessions but who had given us something far more valuable - their unconditional love, their unflinching sacrifice, and the chance to go places they had never imagined for themselves.

Michelle Obama

As Harvard historian of science Peter Galison has demonstrated, the universe of classified knowledge now far exceeds the universe of unclassified knowledge. That's a staggering thought. There is far more classified knowledge in the world than unclassified. And that disparity grows all the time.

Ryan Shapiro

The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession.

Albert Einstein

Ye may have skill in the nature of things, yet nature can do more than all physicians put together; and God is far more above nature.

Oliver Cromwell

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

Mark Twain

WVSOM graduates more physicians annually than both West Virginia University and Marshall University and more than half of the primary care physicians practicing in West Virginia are graduates of the Osteopathic School.

Jim Justice

Earthworms are far more valuable than people.

Paul Watson

Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.

Charles Babbage

Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

Mahatma Gandhi

We want more knowledge about our animals and less sentiment. Far more cruelty is caused in this country by lack of knowledge than by lack of heart.

Muriel Wace

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

Daniel Kahneman

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Maya Angelou

To me, each individual is far more valuable than society as a whole.

Rajneesh

I believe that order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure human sympathy is more valuable than ideology.

Leo Tolstoy

A knowledge of mankind and of things that surround us gives us that second education which proves far move valuable than our first because it alone turns out a truly accomplished man.

Honore de Balzac

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