"Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them..."

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Source : "Provisions of the Last Will and Testament of Dr. James Rush". 1869.

Benjamin Rush

#Intelligent Quotes #Errors Quotes #Needs Quotes

“I try to keep an open mind but I'm so tired of the mediocrity.”
“I love MySpace; it's done an amazing job for me and it's been insane over the past couple of weeks, but I'm not a poster girl for them.”
“Imagine how foolish you would feel if you didn't try only because someone said you're a lunatic.”
“A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.”
“For most problems found in mathematics textbooks, mathematical reasoning is quite useful. But how often do people find textbook problems in real life? At work or in daily life, factors other than strict reasoning are often more important. Sometimes intuition and instinct provide better guides; sometimes computer simulations are more convenient or more reliable; sometimes rules of thumb or back-of-the-envelope estimates are all that is needed.”
“Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.”
“Protoplasm, simple or nucleated, is the formal basis of all life. It is the clay of the potter: which, bake it and paint it as hewill, remains clay, separated by artifice, and not by nature from the commonest brick or sun-dried clod.”
“The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.”

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