"I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their thoughts creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider's web of thoughts too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion."

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Source : Ernst Mach, Thomas J. McCormack (2014). “Popular Scientific Lectures”, p.288, Cambridge University Press

Ernst Mach

#Powerful Quotes #Confusion Quotes #Support Quotes

“Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.”
“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.”
“I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.”
“Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.”
“Bamboo is not a weed, it's a flowering plant. Bamboo is a magnificent plant.”
“Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.”
“The man who is satisfied, because he thinks he is safe, who feels that he has religion enough, because he thinks he has enough to save him from hell, is as ignorant of the power as he is a stranger to the consolation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

Source : Gardiner Spring (1829). “Essays on the distinguishing traits of Christian character”, p.113
“A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.”

Source : Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.15

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