“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.”
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We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature and that man will be myself.
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.