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Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves.
Author: Horace Bushnell
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The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
Author: Eng's Principle
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My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Author: Errol Flynn
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First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.
Author: Dr. Rob Gilbert
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The greatest people will be those who possess the best capacities, cultivated with the best habits.
Author: James Harris
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I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they will keep getting a busy signal and soon they'll forget my number.
Author: Edith Armstrong
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It is nobler to convert souls, than to conquer kingdoms.
Author: Louis Debonnaire
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It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Author: Edmund Hillary
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By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
Author: Claud-adrian Helvetius
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Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be so sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure as he is, he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush.
Author: Phillip Sidney
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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
Author: Claude Levi-strauss
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What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
Author: Herbert Simon
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Blaming "society" makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.
Author: Stanley Schmidt
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Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.
Author: Lin Yutang
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If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
Author: Lyall Watson
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Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.
Author: Remy De Gourmont
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Everything that we think God has in his mind necessarily proceeds from our own mind; it is what we imagine to be in God's mind, and it is really difficult for human intelligence to guess at a divine intelligence. What we usually end up with by this sort of reasoning is to make God the color-sergeant of our army and to make Him as chauvinistic as ourselves.
Author: Lin Yutang
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No child is born with a really cold heart, and it is only in proportion as we lose that youthful heart that we lose the inner warmth in ourselves.
Author: Lin Yutang
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The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.
Author: Lin Yutang
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It is important that man dreams, but it is perhaps equally important that he can laugh at his own dreams.
Author: Lin Yutang
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Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.
Author: Jacob Braude
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There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
Author: Roger Bacon
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We should listen first and foremost to our own experience...We should stop looking for saviors... Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
Author: Lin Yutang
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Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that kind of philosophy is sound and healthy.
Author: Lin Yutang
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Happy is he who bears a god within.
Author: Louis Pasteur
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If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature.
Author: Friedrich Hebbel
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The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.
Author: J.a. Schumpeter
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The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas. In times of crises these men need the guidance of some kind of theory; but, being unfamiliar with the field of ideas, they do not know that alternatives to the popular theories are possible. They know only what they have always been taught.
Author: Leonard Peikoff
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Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial...
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Physicists have determined that even the most solid and heavy mass of matter we see is mostly empty space. But at the submicroscopic level, specks of matter scattered through a vast emptiness have such incredible density and weight, and are linked to one another by such powerful forces, that together they produce all the properties of concrete, cast iron and solid rock. In much the same way, specks of knowledge are scattered through a vast emptiness of ignorance, and everything depends upon how solid the individual specks of knowledge are, and on how powerfully linked and coordinated they are with one another.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Author: Warren Weaver
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The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
Author: Henry Wheeler Shaw
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The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination.
Author: Julian Simon
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But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Author: Herman Melville
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All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
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When you want to organize knowledge. you will be careful to base the classification upon essential qualities. You will thus derive classes in which the members have the greatest amount of resemblance to one another and the greatest amount of difference from the members of other classes. But suppose that, instead of organizing knowledge, you set out to organize ignorance and prejudice. You will then do precisely the opposite...You will keep the classification vague and flexible, so that it can be made to include just whatever individuals you choose.
Author: Barrows Dunham
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Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
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Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
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Truth...never comes into the world but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth.
Author: John Milton
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When we find a thinker reflecting or echoing an apparently erroneous, narrow, or even illogical thought that was popular or authoritative in his time, we must never rule out the possibility that what we have discovered is not the limit of his vision but only an example of his deliberate rhetorical accommodation to reigning prejudice which he does not share but thinks it best not to expose.
Author: Thomas L. Pangle
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Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a "good thing" to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.
Author: Thomas Sowell
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Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.
Author: Baruch Spinoza
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