"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."

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Source : "Treasury of Wisdom, Wit and Humor, Odd Comparisons and Proverbs". Book by Adam Woolever, 1891.

Henry Bolingbroke

#Real Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Taught Quotes

“Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt.”
“Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Anarchy loves theatre. That's the whole point. People forget that. You have to laugh at the devil, not fight him. They'll always have more guns, they'll always have more bombs that go off with a bigger bang. No matter how revolting you become they'll always be willing to be more revolting to you. They've had so much more practice.”

Source : Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.95, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
“The computer industry is creatively bankrupt.”
“Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.”
“I've always had a strong feeling for the Statue of Liberty, because it became the statue of my personal liberty.”
“There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.”
“The proclamation of Jesus is not a veneer: the proclamation of Jesus goes straight to the bones, heart, goes deep within and change us. And the spirit of the world does not tolerate it, will not tolerate it, and therefore, there is persecution.”

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