"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit."
Idries Shah
"...There are times when silence is a poem."
John Fowles
"Absolute and entire ugliness is rare."
John Ruskin
"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
Mark Twain
"But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?"
Charles Darwin
"Paying the high cost of education is better than paying the high price of ignorance."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"I am confident of my ability to demonstrate that one can sometimes believe in something and yet not believe in it. Nothing is less fathomable than the systems that motivate our actions."
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"I have learnt a good deal from my own talk."
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
"I joined the Pass Mods. Class and studied the cyropaedia and Livy's Wars with a resentful feeling that there was quite enough war in the world without having to read about it in Latin."
Vera Brittain
"Don't let a thief into your house three times. The first time was enough. The second time was a chance. The third time means you're stupid."
C. JoyBell C.
"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."
John Ruskin
"I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it."
David Duchovny
"Inner beauty lasts longer than the more obvious seductions, so throw away the miniskirt and thigh-length boots."
Ulysses Brave
"When a lie makes a soft bed for everyone, may the truth lie low. God as commonly understood appears to be one such lie. God as non-existence is not everyone's cup of tea and He better remain so."
R. N. Prasher
"Men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them."
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