Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
The key to wisdom is this – constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.
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