Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a sceptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
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Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today, that I will be tomorrow."
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Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let every on know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.
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The only thing bad about a holiday is it is followed by a non holiday.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
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The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
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There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
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The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.
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Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that despite what you may think is very difficult.. We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well.. Use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means.
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The fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way imply that there is such a thing as religious knowledge.. Unless he can formulate this 'knowledge' in propositions that are empirically verifiable, we may be sure that he is deceiving himself.
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
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Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.
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