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To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting. (Quote by - Stanislaus I of Poland)

Seeking is not always the way to find. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare)

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. (Quote by - Edward Albee)

The mind grows by what it feeds on. (Quote by - J. G. Holland)

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)

One does what one is; one becomes what one does. (Quote by - Robert von Musil)

Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. (Quote by - Cicero)

Before I travelled my road I was my road. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)

Men's first thoughts in this matter are generally better than their second; their natural notions better than those refin'd by study, or consultation with casuists. (Quote by - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper)

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and." (Quote by - Arthur Stanley Eddington)

To know the hight [sic] of a mountain, one must climb it. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare)

Never express yourself more clearly than you think. (Quote by - Niels Henrik David Bohr)

With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. (Quote by - Charles Churchill)

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. (Quote by - Thomas Carlyle)

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple. (Quote by - Dr Seuss)

Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own, but they probably are. (Quote by - Jams Harvey Robinson)

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked."Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat."I don't know," Alice answered.Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland)

If a placebo has an effect, is it any less real than the real thing? (Quote by - Nathaniel LeTonnerre)

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot. (Quote by - Augustus William Hare)

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought. (Quote by - Wilson Mizner)

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish. (Quote by - Evelyn Waugh)

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