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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
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"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom."
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"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."
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"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
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"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."
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"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."
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"The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same."
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"All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
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"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."
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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."
Thought
"The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin."
Faith
"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher."
Man
"The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge."
Knowledge
"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men."
Men
"The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction."
Men
"Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed."
Science
"It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance."
Importance
"The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is whether a doctrine is true or false."
Doctrine
"The child who has been taught to make an accurate elevation, plan, and section of a pint pot has had an admirable training in accuracy of eye and hand."
Accuracy
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