"For where is the man that has incontestable evidence of the truth of all that he holds, or of the falsehood of all he condemns; or can say that he has examined to the bottom all his own, or other men's opinions? The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds, in this fleeting state of action and blindness we are in, should make us more busy and careful to inform ourselves than constrain others."

-- John Locke

#Believe Quotes #Men Quotes #Fleeting Quotes

“Your woman wears underwear out in public,â€ Sabin said. â€œMust be nice. Howâ€™d you manage that little miracle?â€ â€œOnly the Deity knows.”
“Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.”
“Find out who you really are, then accept who you are. Fight for your life every day to be who you are.”
“Do we really think that a government-dominated education is going to produce citizens capable of dominating their government, as the education of a truly vigilant self-governing people requires?”
“When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence, in a foreordained outcome in any given decision.”
“You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”
“I went from somebody who didn't sing to somebody who didn't speak.”
“No occupation is more worthy of an intelligent and enlightened mind, than the study of Nature and natural objects; and whether we labour to investigate the structure and function of the human system, whether we direct our attention to the classification and habits of the animal kingdom, or prosecute our researches in the more pleasing and varied field of vegetable life, we shall constantly find some new object to attract our attention, some fresh beauties to excite our imagination, and some previously undiscovered source of gratification and delight.”

Source : Sir Joseph Paxton (1838). “A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Dahlia”, p.1

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