"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."

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"A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

Voltaire, French Writer

Man, Men, Time, Reputation

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

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"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

George MacDonald, Scottish Novelist

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"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

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"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

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"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

"Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die."

"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

"Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom."

"It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing."

"Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved."

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes."

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"I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

"To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."

"Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."

"To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science."

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