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• Quote 3162

  We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

  by: William James

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• Quote 3157

  In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

  by: William James

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• Quote 3152

  To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.

  by: William James

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• Quote 3147

  Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

  by: William James

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• Quote 3097

  Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

  by: Douglas William Jerrold

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• Quote 3043

  Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  by: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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• Quote 3026

  If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go

  by: John Burroughs

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• Quote 3023

  Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral

  by: John Burroughs

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• Quote 2992

  The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible of

  by: Calvin Milton Woodward

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• Quote 2987

  Knowledge is like a baobab tree - one person's arms are not enough to encompass it

  African proverb

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• Quote 2984

  A wise man seeks wisdom; a madman thinks that he has found it.

  Persian proverb

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• Quote 2980

  We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again

  by: Hyppolyte Taine

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• Quote 2979

  I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of the cats is infinitely superior.

  by: Hyppolyte Taine

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• Quote 2951

  It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun

  by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Quote 2946

  The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2942

  No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2929

  It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2924

  The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2917

  He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2900

  Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2879

  What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2863

  To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2860

  A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2838

  In everything that relates to science, I am a whole Encyclopaedia behind the rest of the world.

  by: Charles Lamb

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• Quote 2830

  Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life

  by: Charles Lamb

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