And I pray thee loving Jesus that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

We did it Disneyland in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored wouldn't we? We keep looking searching trying to get more knowledge.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my power and possessions.

On the same line of reasoning if Australians were to be Australians or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching to love their neighbors then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

But when I would see the surrogate my first instinct my first reaction would be jealousy because she was doing what I wanted to do.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.