Quotes 101 till 120 of 624.
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
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Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
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Creating a new theory is not like destroying an old barn and erecting a skyscraper in its place. It is rather like climbing a mountain, gaining new and wider views, discovering unexpected connections between our starting points and its rich environment.
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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
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Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
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Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought.
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Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.
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Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
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Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
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Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
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Each colony became accustomed to planting new settlements and to claiming new boundaries.
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Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.
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Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.
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England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
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Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
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Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
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Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.
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