A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

Walter Scott
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  1. Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it. - Alan Moore

  2. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Will Durant

  3. I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better... - Henry Rollins

  4. How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other... - Ernest Hemingway

  5. I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think - Socrates

More Quotes By Walter Scott
  1. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.

  2. Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.

  3. I pretend not to be a champion of that same naked virtue called truth, to the very outrance. I can consent that her charms be hidden with a veil, were it but for decency's sake.

  4. My hope, my heaven, my trust must be, My gentle guide, in following thee.

  5. Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

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