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Van Wyck Brooks

"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."

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"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."

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Donna Grant

"There are no new inventions, only new discoveries."

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Donna Grant

"The only gift to yourself is your ability to seek knowledge."

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Donna Grant

"Ignorance is the darkest depths."

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Donna Grant

"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."

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Donna Grant

"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."

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Donna Grant

"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

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Donna Grant

"Life is all about discovery."

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Donna Grant

"Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."

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Donna Grant

"Science is a proven concept with standards. Wisdom is the knowledge of life that we learn by living it."

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Van Wyck Brooks
"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible."

Bible

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Van Wyck Brooks
"People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding."

People

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Van Wyck Brooks
"It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans."

Perception

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Van Wyck Brooks
"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means."

Nothing

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Van Wyck Brooks
"If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?"

Man

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Van Wyck Brooks
"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses."

War

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Van Wyck Brooks
"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere."

People

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Van Wyck Brooks
"No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead."

Experience

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Van Wyck Brooks
"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few."

Knowledge

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Van Wyck Brooks
"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man."

Success

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