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- Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682), 'Christian Morals,' 1716
- Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.
- Austin O'Malley
- The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Le Discours de la Methode,' 1637
- It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.
- Rene Descartes (1596 - 1650), 'Meditations'
- Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
- Eugene S. Wilson
- We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
- Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
- Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I
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