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Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
Topic: Computer / Technology / Science
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Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by hesitation.
Topic: Consequences
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Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
Topic: Education
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Topic: Harm
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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only hold man's
foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.
Topic: Inspirational
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Topic: Inspirational
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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early
in life.
Topic: Inspirational
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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Topic: Inspirational
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Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Topic: Politics / Government
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...a man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
Topic: Politics / Government
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard for any other consideration.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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Veracity is the heart of morality.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
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The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
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Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.
Topic: Society
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Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
Topic: Society
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The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. - Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley.
Topic: Society
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