Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
CHARLES DARWINBlushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
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The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
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Not one change of species into another is on record, we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
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For the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never – reappears.
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In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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He who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.
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Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
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The most energetic workers I have encountered in my world travels are the vegetarian miners of Chile.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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