Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
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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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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The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
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Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.
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The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
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Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true.
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Marriages we regard as the happiest are those in which each of the partners believes he or she got the best of it.
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We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying ‘It got lost,’ and say, ‘I lost it.’
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Never let your fears be the boundaries of your dreams. Happiness is a direction, not a place.
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The best thing you can give children, next to good habits, are good memories.
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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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The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions.
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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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We may hate a person because he reminds us of someone we feared and disliked when younger; or because we see in him some gross caricature of what we find repugnant in ourself; or because he symbolizes an attitude that seems to threaten us.
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We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.
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