"We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."

Wisdom, Knowledge, Truth, Learning

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"We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."

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"When I was young, I thought it is thunder that kills people. But when I learnt physics in the high school, I discovered that it is rather the lightning that does the killing. The voice of the thunder itself is just a noise. The lightning is the poise!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"A book is a sacred gift."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"A man with wisdom will always have a solution no matter how big his challenges may be. Wisdom makes you a problem solver."

Patience Johnson, Nigerian Author

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"In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God, the source of knowledge and wisdom."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"In every situation, we can find sacred lesson."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"To be given to the study of the scriptures is to discover more principles."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"If you listen to many wise sayings, you will develop a strong-mind."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

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"The story becomes clearer with time."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

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"Live to avoid all the numerous field mines of life."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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Explore more quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

"Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person."

Posterity

"Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores."

Circumstance

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."

Power

"The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility."

Friendship

"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."

Strength

"If you would be known and not know vegetate in a village if you would know and not be known live in a city."

Ambition

"Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair."

Courage

"Men spend their lives in anticipation in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.... We may lay in a stock of pleasures as we would lay in a stock of wine but if we defer the tasting of them too long we shall find that both are soured by age."

Responsibility

"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."

Health

"Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds."

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