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- You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), Dialogues, Theatetus
- Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
- Horace Mann (1796 - 1859)
- I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Speech in Indianapolis, April 12, 1959
- Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
- William Penn (1644 - 1718)
- Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
- John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
- It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
- Hesiod (~800 BC)
- Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963), 'The Pilgrim's Regress'
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