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  Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press

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• The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

  James A. Baldwin

  Science, Government, Liberty

  "Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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• Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

  David Bohm

  Real, Learning, Self

  David Bohm, Mark Edwards (1991). “Changing consciousness: exploring the hidden source of the social, political, and environmental crises facing our world”, Harpercollins

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• Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

  Edward de Bono

  Learning, Management, Argument

  Edward De Bono (1991). “I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic”, Penguin Group USA

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• Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Reading, Healing, Writing

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• The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

  Albert Camus

  Creativity, Ideas, Creative

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• It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

  William Ellery Channing

  Inspirational, Learning, Quality Not Quantity

  William Ellery Channing (1840). “Lectures on the elevation of the labouring portion of the community”, p.25

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• For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.

  Stuart Chase

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Believe

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• The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Unhappy

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• Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, People, Giving

  Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.250, Wildside Press LLC

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• Cleverness is not wisdom.

  Euripides

  Wisdom, Life And Love, Silly

  Euripides (1999). “Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus”, p.185, Clarendon Press

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• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Education, Patience

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• Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

  Andre Gide

  Communication, Learning, Listening

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• Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Success

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.56, Princeton University Press

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• Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Love, Life, Spring

  Wilhelm Reich (2013). “The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality”, p.3, Macmillan

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• Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Science, Poetry, Accounts

  Meditations of a Parish Priest Ch. 1, No. LXXI (transl. Isabel Hapgood)

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• You are never dedicated to do something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Religious, People, Goal

  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance pt. 2, ch. 13 (1974)

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• A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.

  John Robert Seeley

  Real, Book, Talking

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• This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

  Juvenal

  Heaven, Know Thyself, Knows

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 419-23, Satires, XI, line 27, 1922.

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• For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which everything is known would be static and dull, as boring as the heaven of some weak-minded theologians. A universe that is unknowable is no fit place for a thinking being. The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit. And I would guess that this is not really much of a coincidence.

  Carl Sagan

  Science, Thinking, Boredom

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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• Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable that life should appear on at least one of them?' 'Sir,' replied Knox, 'if Scotland Yard found a body in your cabin trunk, would you tell them: 'There are millions of trunks in the world; surely one of them must contain a body? I think the would still want to know who put it there'.

  Ronald Knox

  Science, Thinking, Scotland

  "The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes". Book by Clifton Fadiman, p. 541, October 31, 2009.

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• My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Mind, Praise

  Francis Bacon (1824). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England”, p.123

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• In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Character, Men

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1863). “Philosophical works”, p.207

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• I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.

  William Congreve

  Firsts, Opinion, Speak

  'Incognita' (1692)

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• When you have a knowledge of history, it's very soothing. When there's continuity in your life, it's soothing.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Soothing, Continuity

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