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"Only a rebuke that 'has something in it' will sting, will have the power to stir our feelings, not the other sort, as we know."
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"Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine."
Man

"Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."
Trust

"What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
Progress

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
Illusion

"Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
Man

"The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
Dream

"America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."
Success

"America is a mistake, a giant mistake."
Mistake

"I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
Experience

"If youth knew; if age could."
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"Deep down in my heart, I know that I know nothing."
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"Honour pricks me on. Yea but how if honour prick me off when I come on? How then? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then? No. What is honour? A word."
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Personal Development

"Knowledge, ideas, and wisdom are the most powerful forces that we can use to improve lives while bringing peace to this beautiful world."
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Personal Development

"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
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Personal Development

"Self-knowledge is the greatest education."
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Personal Development

"You are a product of your mind, a result of your thoughts, and a consequence of your actions."
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Personal Development

"Time is a precious gift."
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Personal Development

"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
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Personal Development

"Unless you know where you are going then you will not know how to get there."
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"You either waste, spend or invest time. Make your choice wisely."
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