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- Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Dr. Zhivago
- The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
- Theodore Parker (1810 - 1860)
- Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
- John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
- Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
- Napoleon Hill
- To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983)
- He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
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