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| The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. | | Uncategorized | |
| The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing. | | Insanity | |
| The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done. | | Uncategorized | |
| Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense | | Common sense | |
| There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. | | Uncategorized | |
| There is no greater impediment to progress in the sciences than the desire to see it take place too quickly. | | Uncategorized | |
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| To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather -all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. | | Uncategorized | |
| To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation | | Uncategorized | |
| To read means to borrow; to create out of one's readings is paying off one's debts | | Uncategorized | |
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| We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing. | | Uncategorized | |
| We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. | | Wisdom | |
| We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him | | Uncategorized | |
| What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our mouths | | Uncategorized | |
| What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty. | | Uncategorized | |
| What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? | | Experience | |
| What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment. | | Uncategorized | |
| With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. | | Uncategorized | |
| With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another. | | Uncategorized | |
