"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."

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"Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous."

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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

Temple Grandin, American Educator

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"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."

Carl Jung, Swiss Psychologist

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"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."

George Gissing, British Novelist

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"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."

John McCarthy, American Politician

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"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."

Parker Stevenson, American Actor

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"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."

Ernestine Rose, American Activist

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"No one knows a man better than himself."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

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"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."

Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian Poet

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"How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree."

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"No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means."

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"Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen."

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"The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views."

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"While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it."

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"One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed."

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"You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject."

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"I obtain great satisfaction out of using my intellect."

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."

"Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice."

"Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions."

"Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s."

"Cultivate the frontal portion of her brain as much as that of man is cultivated, and she will stand his equal at least. Even now, where her mind has been called out at all, her intellect is as bright, as capacious, and as powerful as his."

"No one knows a man better than himself."

"Never believe all that you hear. Always verify the original source of information."

"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."

"But let no one imagine that we were mere ascetics. There is no more complex pleasure than thought, and it was to thought that we delivered ourselves over."

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"How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree."

"No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means."

"Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen."

"Anticipate charity by preventing poverty."

"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress."

"You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes."

"The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views."

"While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it."

"One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed."

"You must consider, when reading this treatise, that mental perception, because connected with matter, is subject to conditions similar to those to which physical perception is subject."