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11 Aphorisms and 1 of My Own

October 25th, 2009 · No Comments

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  1. “All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” - Arthur Schopenhauer  -
  2. “Popular opinion is the greatest liar in the world.” - Thomas Carlyle  -
  3. “Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” - Andre Gide  -
  4. “Truth prevails where opinions are free.” - Thomas Paine  -
  5. “All generalizations are false, including this one.” - Blaise Pascal  -
  6. “All great truths begin as blasphemies.” - George Bernard Shaw  -
  7. “Do not judge and you will never be mistaken.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau  -
  8. “A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.” - George Christoph Lichtenberg  -
  9. “A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another’s.” - Jean Paul Richter  -
  10. “To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe  -
  11. “Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.” - Henry Ford  - 
  12. “Courage of conviction is when I refuse to change my opinion to agree with yours. Stubbornness is when you refuse to change your opinion to agree with mine.”  - Me  -

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