"Man's greatness lies in his power of thought."

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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Swiss Philosopher

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"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

Stephen King, American Author

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"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."

Stephen King, American Author

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"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

Maya Angelou, American Poet

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"Science is nothing but perception."

Plato, Greek Philosopher

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"What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."

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"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."

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"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

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"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him."

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"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."

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"There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws."

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"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."

"We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."

"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."

"Writing is the act of finding out what I think."

"The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism."

"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."

"Science is nothing but perception."

"What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much."

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"It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth."

"Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything."

"If man studied himself, he would see how incapable he is of going further."

"Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience."

"The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched."

"I made this [letter] very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."

"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

"Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him."

"We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured."

"There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws."