If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.

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The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.

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When you want to teach children to think, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solitude for them, and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think.

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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.

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The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

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dont let the old break you; let the love make you.

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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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The most valuable things in life are not measured in monetary terms. The really important things are not houses and lands, stocks and bonds, automobiles and real state, but friendships, trust, confidence, empathy, mercy, love and faith.

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