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- Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- All things are difficult before they are easy.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732
- You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 - 1892)
- There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
- Emile Chartier
- Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
- Sydney Smith (1771 - 1845)
- Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything.
- Henri Poincare (1854 - 1912)
- I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
- James Thurber (1894 - 1961)
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- Horace Walpole (1717 - 1797)
- The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986)
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