Wisdom Quotes · Page 65
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“Apparently the rise of consciousness is linked to certain kinds of privation.”
“However, you have brains, and it is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.”
“The Land of Oz is surely the most favored land in all the world, and its people the happiest.”
“In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune.”
“To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.”
“It's a very odd thing— As odd as can be— That whatever Miss T. eats Turns into Miss T.”
“Oh, no man knows Through what wild centuries Roves back the rose.”
“We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.”
“Old Rover in his moss-greened house Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse.”
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
“Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.”
“A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.”
“Hypothetical liberty is allowed to everyone who is not a prisoner and in chains.”
“It is a familiar and significant saying that a problem well-put is half-solved.”
“The world's a fine place for those who go out to take it; there's lots of unknown stuff in it yet.”
“Justice is a machine that, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.”
“The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.”
“Truth admits but the one rule: No deficiency, and no excess!”