Quotes 261 till 280 of 286.
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To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.
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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
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To one, science is an exalted goddess, to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.
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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.
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Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne.
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
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Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.
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Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
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War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
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War isn't about who's right, it's about who's left
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We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.
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We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.
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We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
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Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
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What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.
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What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.
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What we need is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out.
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When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.
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When our knowing exceeds our sensing, we will no longer be deceived by the illusions of our senses.
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