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"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."
"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."
"In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied."
"A person is the product of his learning. What he learns and how he interprets it is what he becomes."
Explore more quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
"The boldest plans for the future invoke the authority of the past, and that even a revolutionary seeks to satisfy himself that he is also a reactionary."
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly, the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
"Government has become ungovernable; that is, it cannot leave off governing. Law has become lawless; that is, it cannot see where laws should stop. The chief feature of our time is the meekness of the mob and the madness of the government."
"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it."
"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."
"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."
"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."
"Good taste, the last and vilest of human superstitions, has succeeded in silencing us where all the rest has failed."
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