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The perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing: it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep.
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Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
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To not only take risks, but to be open to life. To accept new views and to be open to new opinions.
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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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A provision of endless apparatus, a bustle of infinite inquiry and research, or even the mere mechanical labour of copying, may be employed, to evade and shuffle off real labour—the real labour of thinking.
Joshua Reynoldsverified·Discourse XII, in Fifteen Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy·December 10, 1784
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But we have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more are we capable of seeing.
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It is better therefore to listen patiently to a friend's rebuke, for if he should afterwards do wrong himself and so need rebuke, he has set you the example of freedom of speech.