Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft."
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Thorough Knowledge
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Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all."
Jane Austen
Novelist
"It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language"
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye."
Helen Keller
Author, Activist
"I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men."
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"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter'd by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him."
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