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“Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.”

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Stanislaw Jerzy Lec was a Polish poet, writer, and satirist. Known for his wit, humor, and profound insights, his works often explore human behavior and moral issues through satire and allegory. more

“Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.”

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Tributes and miscellany

“At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.”

Men Growth Opinion Judgment Prejudice Thirty Sixty Modifying

Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.”

Men Needs Years Long Grows Growth Century Oaks Greatest Man

Book:Tributes and miscellany

Source: Tributes and miscellany

“Every creed is a rock in running water: humanity sweeps by it. Every creed cries to the universe, "Halt!" A creed is the ignorant Past bulling the enlightened Present.”

Running Past Humanity Universe Growth Water Rocks Cry Ignorant Enlightened Creeds Halt Running Water

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge. You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder. If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mean Able Understanding Growth Steps Climbs Fifth Ladders Good Way No Hope Guarding

Book:Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Being Peace: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.”

Mind Humans Stills School Growth Generations Exercise Limits Authority Blind Generous Human Mind Disciple Plato Deference Plato And Aristotle

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1

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