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"Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses."
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"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
"If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come."
"The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust."
"I who know many present things by my art," replied the Hermit with a smile, "have yet little knowledge of things future. Therefore I do not know whether any man or woman or beast in the whole world will be alive when the sun sets tonight. But be of good hope. The damsel is likely to live as long as any her age."
"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."
"Knowing more than someone does not necessarily mean that you know every single thing they know."
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"Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates."
"Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave."
"Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled."
"You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend."
"Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail."
"Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction."
"I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow."
"The main reason why men and women make different aesthetic judgments is the fact that the latter, generally incapable of abstraction, only admire what meets their complete approval."
"If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short."
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