Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
SYDNEY J. HARRISNobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his “philosophy of life” until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.
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Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with.
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Almost every man looks more so in a belted trench coat.
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What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.
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Man’s unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.
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When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’
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Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?
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Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.
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It is not only useless, it is harmful, to believe in oneself until one truly knows oneself. And to know oneself means to accept our moments of insanity, of eccentricity, of childishness and blindness.
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Take away grievances from some people and you remove their reasons for living; most of us are nourished by hope, but a considerable minority get psychic nutrition from their resentments, and would waste away purposelessly without them.
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Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
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