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The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's. ”
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. ”
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. ”
Zeal will do more than knowledge. ”
Ambition is best tempered with self-knowledge! ”
Who of us knows or can by possibility arrive at a knowledge of the laws that govern our property and lives? ”
The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection. ”
The extent of our progress in the cultivation of knowledge is unlimited. ”
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. ”
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. ”