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"Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved."
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"Never stop acquiring the commonsense, it is as good as the knowledge."
"You don't need to climb a mountain to know that it's high."
"Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere."
"The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence."
"Every fiction has its base in fact."
"If I want to understand an individual human being, I must lay aside all scientific knowledge of the average man and discard all theories in order to adopt a completely new and unprejudiced attitude. I can only approach the task of understanding with a free and open mind, whereas knowledge of man, or insight into human character, presupposes all sorts of knowledge about mankind in general."
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"The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it."
"It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men."
"Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger."
"Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought."
"Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior."
"Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war."
"Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured."
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