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"How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world."
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"Getting an education is not only a matter of checking the boxes as your life progresses, it is a gift which can enrich every aspect of your world."
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"If you are still breathing, don not stop learning."
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
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"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
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"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."
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"All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."
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"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."
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"I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age."
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"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."
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"Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know."
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"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."
Beginning
"A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."
Beginning
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
Beauty
"Evil is whatever distracts."
Evil
"Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms."
Life
"Hiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places."
Independence
"The Bible is a sanctum; the world, sputum."
Bible
"Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it."
Truth
"In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing."
Love
"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."
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