The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.
SYDNEY J. HARRISBetween the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter.
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The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.
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People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault.
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Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues.
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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith.
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Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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The greatest educational dogma is also its greatest fallacy: the belief that what must be learned can necessarily be taught.
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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.
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Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
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Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.
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Many people feel “guilty” about things they shouldn’t feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.
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Between the semi-educated, who offer simplistic answers to complex questions, and the overeducated, who offer complicated answers to simple questions, it is a wonder that any questions get satisfactorily answered at all.
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