Samuel Tuke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Think it over, think it under.

  • I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

  • Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...

  • But the transformation of consciousness undertaken in Taoism and Zen is more like the correction of faulty perception or the curing of a disease. It is not an acquisitive process of learning more and more facts or greater and greater skills, but rather an unlearning of wrong habits and opinions. As Lao-tzu said, "The scholar gains every day, but the Taoist loses every day.

  • The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

  • He who represents himself has a fool for a client

  • Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself.

  • A prosperous fool is a grievous burden.

  • It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

  • Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

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