"Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

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"Reading after a certain (time) diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

Stephen King, American Author

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"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."

Stephen King, American Author

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"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Science is nothing but perception."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"Love is a better master than duty."

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"There are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay down such strongly determined laws that within these laws only rationally determined constants occur (not constants, therefore, whose numerical value could be changed without destroying the theory)."

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"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."

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"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."

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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."

"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

"Science is nothing but perception."

"What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much."

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"Love is a better master than duty."

"There are no arbitrary constants ... nature is so constituted that it is possible logically to lay down such strongly determined laws that within these laws only rationally determined constants occur (not constants, therefore, whose numerical value could be changed without destroying the theory)."

"Information is not knowledge."

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

"Play is the highest form of research."

"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."

"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."

"When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again."