Excerpts of Citations
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A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
from The Gay Science, section 41 -
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
~Abraham Lincoln
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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaul...
~Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
~John Ruskin
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One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
~Will Durant
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Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
~Ayn Rand
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There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
~Sydney Smith
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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the...
~Tony Robbins
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Everything that can be said can be said clearly.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Every logical position will eventually lead you into trouble, and heresy, and chaos. Every logical position is consistent, but it is logic which is in the human mind, not God's logic. The human min...
~Kenneth L. Pike
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In the acquisition of Sacred knowledge, scholarship and reason are not alternatives to revelation. They are a means to an end, and the end is revelation from God.
~Dallin H. Oaks
from LDS Speaker's Sourcebook, page 230 -
No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of earth to the things of heaven.
~Hugh Nibley
from Of All Things, page 219 -
Sometimes when I'm faced with an unbeliever, an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we finished eating that magnificent dinner, to...
~Ronald Reagan
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True knowledge never shuts the door on more knowledge, but zeal often does.
~Hugh Nibley
from Of All Things, p 218 -
Whatever God requires is right, no matter what it is, although we may not see the reason thereof until all of the events transpire.
~Joseph Smith
from History of the Church, 5:135