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- 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
- 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
- Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act 1, Scene 2
- Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.
- Pindar (522 BC - 443 BC), 518-438 B.C.
- When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
- My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
- Mae West (1892 - 1980), Klondike Annie (1936 film)
- Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
- William Saroyan (1908 - 1981)
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