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The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Topic: Action
Source: None
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I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits.
Topic: Conversation
Source: None
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
Topic: Curiosity
Source: None
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It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein
men find pleasure to be deceived.
Topic: Deceit
Source: Human Understanding (bk. III, ch. X, 34)
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Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth,
error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our
judgment, giving assent to that which is not true.
Topic: Errors
Source: Essay Concerning Human Understanding (bk. IV, Of Wrong Assent or Error, ch. XX)
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All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.
Topic: Errors
Source: None
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A man may live long, and die at last in ignorance of many truths,
which his mind was capable of knowing, and that with certainty.
Topic: Ignorance
Source: Human Understanding (bk. I, ch. II)
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Topic: Inspirational
Source: None
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Th' an'am an Dhia, but there it is--
The dawn on the hills of Ireland.
God's angels lifting the night's black veil
From the fair sweet face of my sireland!
O Ireland, isn't it grand, you look
Like a bride in her rich adornin',
And with all the pent up love of my heart
I bid you the top of the morning.
Topic: Ireland
Source: The Exile's Return
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O, love is the soul of a true Irishman;
He loves all that's lovely, loves all that he can,
With his sprig of shillelagh and shamrock so green.
Topic: Ireland
Source: The Exile's Return
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He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is
capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss.
Topic: Judgment
Source: Human Understanding (bk. II, ch. XXI)
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Logic is the anatomy of thought.
Topic: Logic
Source: None
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
Topic: Perspective
Source: None
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Source: None
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If punishment makes not the will supple it hardens the offender.
Topic: Punishment
Source: None
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To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures
generally content themselves with the title.
Topic: Reason
Source: Letter to Antony Collins, Esq.
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Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.
Topic: Reverie
Source: None
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The picture of a shadow is a positive thing.
Topic: Shadows
Source: Essay concerning Human Understanding (bk. II, ch. VIII, par. 5)
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To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
Topic: Society
Source: None
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The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
Topic: Thought
Source: None
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
Topic: World
Source: None
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Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. ne great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.
Topic: ~curiosity
Source: None
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