"If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance."

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Source : Marcus Aurelius (2006). “Meditations”, p.95, Penguin UK

Marcus Aurelius

#Mistake Quotes #Ignorance Quotes #Self Quotes

“I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.”
“I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.”

Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. April 28, 2003.
“Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.”

Source : John Philip Sousa (2010). “Six marches”, p.52, A-R Editions, Inc.
“In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable.”
“I took a leave of absence from the internet company where I was working and bought a camera and a copy of Final Cut Pro editing software and made my first feature film, "Street Fight." It followed a crazy, racially charged mayoral election in Newark, NJ in which a young guy named Cory Booker was taking on the political machine of that city. It went on to be nominated for an Oscar and Emmy and was a real example of DIY film-making.”
“At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.”
“Faith from, its essential nature implies the fallen state of man, while it recognizes the principles of the covenant of grace. It is itself the condition of that covenant. It is a grace which is alike distinguished from the love of angels and the faith of devils. It is peculiar to the returning sinner. None but a lost sinner needs it; none but a humbled sinner relishes it.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". P. 233. Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
“When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do. Then you pretty much can figure out what he is going to do against you - whether he carries his hands low or high, whether he is bumping or pushing, those type of things.”

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