“A wise man seeks wisdom; a madman thinks that he has found it.”
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“A wise man seeks wisdom; a madman thinks that he has found it.”
“Knowledge is like a baobab tree - one person's arms are not enough to encompass it”
“The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible of”
“Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral”
“If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go”
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
“Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.”
“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”
“To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.”
“In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.”
“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.”