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"The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant."
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"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."
"Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery."
"In worthy teaching, all things are related."
"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us."
"Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you."
"In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read, and which ranged from the aspirations hidden deepest within me to the completely exterior vision of the horizon which I had, at the bottom of the garden, before my eyes, what was first in me, innermost, the constantly moving handle that controlled the rest, was my belief in the philosophical richness and beauty of the book I was reading, and my desire to appropriate them for myself, whatever that book might be."
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"Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on."
"If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own."
"Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false."
"God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction."
"There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making."
"The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things."
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