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Ideas shape the course of history.
    John Maynard Keynes

It is right to learn, even from an enemy.
    Ovid

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man's mind, stretched by new ideas, may never return to its original dimensions.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
    Issac D’Israeli

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual...Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
    George Santayana

If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
    Isaac Newton

Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Devil is the enemy of proverbs.
    Martin Luther

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.
    Tom Paine

No enemy is worse than bad advice.
    Sophocles

Nobody's perfect!
    common saying

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
    Wilt Chamberlain

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
    George Santayana

Not until we are lost, do we begin to find ourselves.
    Henry David Thoreau

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
    William Faulkner

The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.
    Christopher Hitchens

When you know how to think it empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
    Neil Degrasse Tyson

It is not so very important for a person to learn facts...The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.
    Albert Einstein

Reason obeys itself.
[Independence is my happiness]
    Tom Paine

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
    Eleanor Roosevelt?