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"The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification."
Science
"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
Knowledge
"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."
Business
"Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth."
Time
"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
Men
"It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body."
Education
"Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards."
Time
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
Man
"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?"
Knowledge
"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
Thought
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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Personal Development
"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."
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Personal Development
"Being is more important than doing."
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Personal Development
"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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Personal Development
"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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Personal Development
"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."
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Personal Development
"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
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Personal Development
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
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Personal Development
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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Personal Development
"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
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Personal Development
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