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Paul Valery, 1895
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
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Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Mentat Fixe
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ablility to learn. The judgemental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
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Leon Trotsky
If we had more time for discussion, we should probably have made a great many more mistakes.
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John W. Gardner
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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Mary Catherine Bateson
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
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Nancy Hogshead
It's hard to stay committed...to stay in touch with the goal without saying there's something wrong with myself, my goal, the world.
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Juan Ramon Jiminez
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
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Will Durant
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind.
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Johann von Goethe
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
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Russell Wayne Baker
A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
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