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Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg

“When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?”

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German physicist, inventor, and writer, known for his research in electricity and magnetism. He proposed Lichtenberg's law in electricity and invented various scientific instruments. more

“Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.”

Knows Men Mind Book Reason Body Today Spiritual Mother Authority Conscience Increase Mark Available Educated Abundance Tenderness Relish Educated Man

Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than just simply to reveal to them the infinite possibility of their own souls.”

Men Soul Can Do Possibility Infinite Satisfying Infinite Possibilities

Book:Walt Whitman's Camden conversations

Source: Walt Whitman's Camden conversations

“Imagination is a very high sort of seeing.”

Imagination Leadership Seeing

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“Being in love is something like poetry. Certainly, you can analyze and expound its various senses and intentions, but there is always something left over, mysteriously hovering between music and meaning.”

Left Love Is Intention Various Senses Being In Love Hovering

Book:The Informed Air: Essays

Source: The Informed Air: Essays

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.”

“As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.”

Whole Home America Numbers Hated Homeless Hateful Gutters Home And Family

Book:Sabbath's Theater

Source: Sabbath's Theater

“In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.”

May Made Sometimes Movement Ascent Actual Life

Book:Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

Source: Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience

“Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.”

Art Practice Humility Masters Radical Humiliated

Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.”

Men Imagination Hurt Deals Huge Amount Penalties Got Hurt

Book:Red Dragon

Source: Red Dragon

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