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Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Eric Hoffer

We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.
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Reality Understand
Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.
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Difference Equality Freedom Passion Reality
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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Deep Happiness Search Wisdom
Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.
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Change Deep Poison Truth Yourself
Fair play is primarily not blaming others for anything that is wrong with us.
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Blame Fair Play Wrong
It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt.
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Excitement People Revolution Suffering Taste
The beginning of thought is in disagreement – not only with others but also with ourselves.
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Agreement Beginning Ourselves Thinking
Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
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Ability Creativity Introduction Nature
Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.
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Enemy Ideal Kind Man Sacrifice
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.
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Easy Friendship Humanity Love
To learn you need a certain degree of confidence, not too much and not too little. If you have too little confidence, you will think you can’t learn. If you have too much, you will think you don’t have to learn.
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Confidence Learning Need Thinking Yourself
To know a person’s religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
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Brand Faith Listening Need Person Professional Religion Tolerance
Far more critical than what we know or what we don’t know is what we don’t want to know.
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Philosophy Yourself
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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Lie Loud Ourselves
The greatest weariness comes from work not done.
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Greatness Work
Language was invented to ask questions.
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Invention Language Talk

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