“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him”
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“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him”
“We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him”
“What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?”
“Error is none the better for being common, nor truth the worse for having lain neglected”
“He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss”
“All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it”
“It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth”
“There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse”
“A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else”
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”
“We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.”
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence”
“The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.”