"Our mental limitations prevent us from accepting our mental limitations."

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Source : Robert A. Burton, M.D., M.D. (2008). “On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not”, p.163, Macmillan

Robert A. Burton

#Humility Quotes #Accepting Quotes #Limitation Quotes

“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
“Playing a song changes a song. Every night a song becomes something else on stage.”

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“To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.”
“I think my craziest hair was when I first went red for my 30th birthday. My idea was The Little Mermaid because I always wanted to be her and then I was going to be I love Lucy and every red-haired character that you can imagine. It was really cartoon red and now I'm in the more natural believable tones.”

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“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.”
“I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely andentirely from an independent study of the plants themselves.”

Source : "Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I".
“From a private gentlewoman you have made me first a marchioness, then a queen; and, as you can raise me no higher in the world, you are now sending me to be a saint in Heaven.”
“DNA doesn't make a family. Love does.”

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