"We must distinguish judging from guessing."

-- Ernest Sosa

#Judging Quotes #Guessing Quotes

“Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand. Those who trust to such false quoters will often learn how contrary this transmission is to the sense and application of the original. Every transplantation has altered the fruit of the tree; every new channel, the quality of the stream in its remove from the spring-head.”
“The Waltons was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”
“My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.”
“Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise to thee.”

Source : 1826 'Holy, Holy, Holy!'.
“The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.”
“Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.”
“After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of astronomy overthrew the false hypothesis upon which the entire structure rested, namely the geocentric system of the universe. The fact that the earth revolves in space intervened to upset the complicated play of planetary influences, and the silent stars, related to the unfathomable depths of the sky, no longer made their prophetic voices audible to mankind. Celestial mechanics and spectrum analysis finally robbed them of their mysterious prestige.”

Source : "Astrology and Religion".

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