"You must learn all things, both the unshaken heart of persuasive truth, and the opinions of mortals in which there is no true warranty."

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Source : Frag B 1.28-30, quoted by Sextus Empiricus, "Against the Mathematicians", vii. 3,

Parmenides

#Heart Quotes #Opinion Quotes #Persuasive Quotes

“To be a saint is to be yourself.”
“The hero, in living her own life, in being true to herself; radiates a light by which others may see their own way.”

Source : Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.94, Penguin
“For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.”
“You could make your fingers reproduce exactly what you felt, if you really worked at it. I achieved it, not only spending a lot of time at the keyboard but finding ways I could make my fingers reproduce my deepest feelings. It meant, when you hit a note with a finger, you sank into that note all the way to the bottom of the keyboard until it went pow! Right?...”
“Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.”
“The greatest risk to man is not that he aims to high and misses, but that he aims to low and hits.”
“I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear beautiful; carnal sense is such a glass to wicked men, it makes heavenly things which are beautiful to appear deformed, and earthly things which are deformed to appear beautiful.”
“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.”

Source : Karen Joy Fowler (2012). “Sarah Canary”, p.49, Hachette UK

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