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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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Mankind is getting smarter every day. Actually, it only seems so. At least we are making progress. We're progressing, to be sure, ever more deeply into the forest.
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The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
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The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.
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Ideas are not thoughts; the thought respects the boundaries that the idea ignores thereby failing to realize itself.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
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If someone were to think that trees are made to support the sky, they would all seem too short.
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Whoever places his trust into a system will soon be without a home. While you are building your third story, the two lower ones have already been dismantled.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
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You even called me stupid in your verse, and I'm almost agreeing, for where stupidity is involved, you are quite an expert, friend.
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