My Favorite Quotes...
"There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys; they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves."
                                  ---S�ren Kierkegaard
...Words to ponder
"Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion."
             ---Benjamin Franklin
"He is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins."
                  ---Frederick Douglas
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."
                 ---Plato
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing."
              ---Anatole France
"A little truth helps the lie go down."
                 ---unk.
"Gnothi seauton."
"Know thy self."
           ---Socrates
"Always do right.  This will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
                    ---Mark Twain
"For the good, search; For the bad, await."
         ---unk.
"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies."
                  ---Thomas Jefferson
"He, O men, is wisest of you all who has learned, like Socrates, that his wisdom is worth nothing."
                           ---Plato
"If rascals knew the advantages of virtue they would become honest men out of rascality."
           ---Benjamin Franklin
"Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse."
          ---unk.
"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education."
                     ---Wilson Mizner
"Learning makes a man fit company for himself."
                ---Thomas Fuller
"The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn."
                          ---Haskins
"Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives."          ---George Herbert
"Bad times have a scientific value.  These are occasions a good learner would not miss."
                              ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on."
                         ---Heraclitus
"...All men make mistakes.  But a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil.  The only crime is pride."
                        ---Sophocles
"The world's a theatre, the Earth a stage which God and naature do with actors fill."
                 ---Thomas Heywood
"If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago."
                        ---William Hazlitt
"Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed."
                 ---Walter Lippman
"It is not only the most difficult thing to know one'self, but the most inconvenient one, too."
                          ---H.W. Shaw
"Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart."
                ---Proverbs 3:3
"Character is much easier kept than recovered."
                           ---Thomas Paine
"Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen."
            ---George C. Lichtenberg
"If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you didn't want."
                   ---unk.
"I would rather have men ask, after I am dead, why I have no monument than why I have one."
                   ---Cato the Elder
"Life without a friend; Death without a witness."
                    ---George Herbert
"Wisdom consists in rising both superior both to wisdom and common sense, and in lending one'self to the universal delusion without becoming it's dupe"
                                                                    ---Amiel
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