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Amos Bronson Alcott: To be ignorant...

Amos Bronson Alcott: To be ignorant...

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

Source: In The...

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Ralph Ellison: Eclecticism is the...

Ralph Ellison: Eclecticism is the...

Eclecticism is the word. Like a jazz musician who creates his own style out of the styles around him, I play by...

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Daniel Defoe: Vice came in...

Daniel Defoe: Vice came in...

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

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Karl Popper: Our civilization...has not...

Karl Popper: Our civilization...has not...

Our civilization...has not yet fully recovered from the shock of its birth - the transition from the tribal or 'closed...

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John Locke: Reading furnishes the...

John Locke: Reading furnishes the...

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read...

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J R R Tolkien: All that is...

J R R Tolkien: All that is...

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

Source: The...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: Only sick music...

Friedrich Nietzsche: Only sick music...

Only sick music makes money today.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Plato: When the mind...

Plato: When the mind...

When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Plato: We can easily...

Plato: We can easily...

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: The desire to...

Friedrich Nietzsche: The desire to...

The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does...

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Emile M Cioran: To be human...

Emile M Cioran: To be human...

To be human is no solution, any more than ceasing to be so.

Source: In Webster's...

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Charles Wesley: O for a...

Charles Wesley: O for a...

O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise!

Source: In Draper's...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: When they...

Mary McLeod Bethune: When they...

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas . . . Whatever the white man has...

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Oswald Spengler: Formerly no one...

Oswald Spengler: Formerly no one...

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people...

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Friedrich Nietzsche: And as for...

Friedrich Nietzsche: And as for...

And as for sickness: would we not almost be tempted to ask whether we can in any way do without it? Only great pain...

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Isaac Singer: Every creator painfully...

Isaac Singer: Every creator painfully...

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate...

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Mary McCarthy: Every age has...

Mary McCarthy: Every age has...

Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

Source: On the Contrary, pt. 1,...

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Henry Kissinger: The nice thing...

Henry Kissinger: The nice thing...

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their...

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Stephen Leacock: Astronomy teaches the...

Stephen Leacock: Astronomy teaches the...

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Source: Literary...

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Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Jane Harrison: Marriage, for a...

Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship and...

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