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- The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything we do.
- Erich Gutkind
- Live truth instead of professing it.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
- Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
- Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The pursuit of truth shall set you free - even if you never catch up with it.
- Clarence Darrow (1857 - 1938)
- The world is so constructed, that if you wish to enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you cannot have one without the other.
- Swami Brahnmananda
- One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
- Sterne
- Analysis kills spontaneity.
- Henri-Frederic Amiel
- No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)
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