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"There are no new inventions, only new discoveries."
"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."
"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."
"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."
"Life is all about discovery."
"Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know."
Explore more quotes by John Acton
"If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation."
"By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead."
"The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition."
"Liberty is the condition of duty, the guardian of conscience. It grows as conscience grows. The domains of both grow together. Liberty is safety from all hindrances, even sin. So that Liberty ends by being Free Will."
"The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities."
"Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country."
"Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin."
"By liberty I mean the assurance that every man shall be protected in doing what he believes is his duty against the influence of authority and majorities, custom and opinion."
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