'Clear your mind of cant.' - Dr. Samuel Johnson

'It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.' - Mark Twain

'There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.' - Oscar Levant

'To want to forget something is to think of it. - French Proverb

'Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.' - Remy de Gourmont

'To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.' - Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.

'Man is what he believes.' - Anton Chekhov

'The mind's direction is more important than its progress.'Joseph Joubert

'The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.' - William James

'Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.' - Thomas Huxley

'The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.' - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

'You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.' - Albert Camus

'Patience is the companion of wisdom.' - St. Augustine

'Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.' - Charles Caleb Colton

'It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.' - William G. McAdoo

'I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.' - Margaret Thatcher

'The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses.' - Edith Sodergran

'A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.' - Kenneth Tynan

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'The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract.' - Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.