"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses."

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.”

Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, transl. by C. D. Yonge, London: H. G. Bohn, p. 196, 1853.
“People only love you as long as they're getting something of you, but the minute you say something they don't want to hear or do something they don't want to see, all the admiration drains from their hearts.”
“The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.”
“You should think about your character. Know where you are changing, how you will be changed, what cannot be changed back again.”
“It's not my job to produce results. But it is my job to lay my hands on the sick, the oppressed, and to preach the Gospel.”
“Orators are most vehement when they have the weakest cause, as men get on horseback when they cannot walk.”
“Imagine what we could accomplish if our dreams were bigger than our fears”
“The birth of Christ our Lord was more than an incident, it was an epoch in the history of the world... He came to teach us the character of God, and by example and precept pointed out the path which, if we walk in it, will lead us back into his presence. He came to break the bands of death with which man was bound, and made possible the resurrection by which the grave is robbed of its victory and death of its sting.”

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