Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G. K. CHESTERTONTruth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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