We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to th…

Charles Caleb Colton
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
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To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1836). Lacon: … ▶
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
A hug is worth a thousand words.
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few … ▶
Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1866). Lacon: or, Many things in few words, p.55

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

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