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“Anger may glance into the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of fools.”
“The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.”
“It is not certain that everything is uncertain.”
Source: The Thoughts on religion, and evidences of Christianity, of Pascal; tr., with intr., notes, etc., by G. Pearce
“Don't ever wrestle with a pig. You'll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.”
“Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.”
Source: Essays of Montaigne
“Fear is what prevents the flowering of the mind.”
Source: Krishnamurti on Education
“Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., with Notes and Illustrations, by Himself and Others. To which are Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks by William Roscoe, Esq
Source: The Writings of James Monroe: 1817-1823
“Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!”
“The mind does not take its complexion from the skin.”
Source: Frederick Douglass, in his own words
“They don't tell you this in school, Everybody plays the fool.”
“Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.”
Source: Table talk
“A person who speaks cleverly is witty; one who asks questions is smart.”
Source: Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin
Source: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography
“Doing the right thing is not the problem. Knowing what the right thing is, that's the challenge.”
Source: Inaugural Addresse, Delivered to the University of St. Andrews: Feb. 1st 1867
Source: The End of Education: Redefining the Value of School
“He is a fool who thinks by force or skill To turn the current of a woman's will.”
“I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.”
Source: Moo
Source: Groucho And Me
Source: A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects
Source: A New England girlhood