"Incredulity is not wisdom, but the worst kind of folly. It is folly, because it causes ignorance and mistake, with all the consequents of these; and it is very bad, as being accompanied with disingenuity, obstinacy, rudeness, uncharitableness, and the like bad dispositions; from which credulity itself, the other extreme sort of folly, is exempt."

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Source : Isaac Barrow, James Hamilton (1861). “The works of Isaac Barrow”, p.163

Isaac Barrow

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“To us, the ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their resting place is hallowed ground.”
“For who so firm that cannot be seduced?”
“When two people become entangled, one person will conform to the energy of the other person. When one of them is a healer whose cells are vibrating at a higher level, the client's cells become entangled, and their energy is lifted. That's why that old saying, "physician heal thyself," is so important, even though most don't understand it: If the physician's energy is going to influence or, in scientific terms, "entrain" the patient's, the doctor's must be higher.”

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“You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.”
“The reason of the close concurrence between the individuals progress and that of the race appears, therefore, when we remember the dependence of each upon the other.”

Source : James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”
“The word sharing affirms that we have something extraordinarily valuable and desire to give it to others for their benefit and blessing.”
“The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back.”
“My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.”

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