"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."

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"There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."

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"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

Albert Schweitzer, German Theologian

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"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I teach that all men are mad."

Horace, Roman Poet

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"The man is either mad, or he is making verses."

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"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

Georg C. Lichtenberg, German Physicist

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"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."

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"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."

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"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."

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"It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."

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"Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable."

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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

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"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."