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Although our intellect always feels itself urged towards clearness and certainty, still our mind often feels itself attracted by uncertainty.
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It’s also about knowing what you know and what you don’t know. It’s about being open to people and ideas.
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As long as you have mystery you have health; when you destroy mystery you create morbidity.
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Every artist does something more than copy Nature; more comes out in his account than goes into the original experience.
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There is the standing danger that the material of formal instruction will be merely the subject matter of the schools, isolated from the subject matter of life-experience.
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He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that
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To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty.
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They may be truths to me, but don’t think that that makes them mine… because you can’t own a truth.
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the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.verified·Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (dissenting)·November 10, 1919
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Practice makes perfect.
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Two heads are better than one.