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- If a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935)
- Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Science is but the statement of truth found out.
- Coley
- He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - 1667)
- By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
- Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.
- Johnson
- Would you who judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure, take this rule; whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spiritual things; in short; whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you; however innocent it may be in itself.
- Robert Southey (1774 - 1843)
- Conscience, in most men, is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
- Taylor's Statesman
- Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God and value it next to a good conscience; for health is the second blessing that money cannot buy; therefore value it, and be thankful for it.
- Izaak Walton (1593 - 1683)
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