Skepticism is not an end in itself; it is a tool for the discovery of truths.
SYDNEY J. HARRISYou may be sure that when a man begins to call himself a realist he is preparing to do something that he is secretly ashamed of doing.
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Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem, but the perpetual human predicament is that the answer soon poses its own problems.
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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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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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And to assert defensively at the outset that he is happily married, the father of four children and the one-time adornment of his college boxing, track and tennis teams.
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Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
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Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.
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Elitism is the slur directed at merit by mediocrity.
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Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the object of its hatred.
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When we have “second thoughts” about something, our first thoughts don’t seem like thoughts at all – just feelings.
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The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
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Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.
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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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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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The world has always been betrayed by decent men with bad ideals.
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