“A stupid man's report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.”

― Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy

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“James Joyce seemed like the most arrogant man who ever lived, had both his eyes wide open and great faculty of speech, but what he say, I knew not what.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

“I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children—lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus.”

― Marilyn Monroe, My Story

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“if hawks have always had the same character why should you imagine that men may have changed theirs?”

― Voltaire, Candide

“all men feel sometimes the falsehood which they cannot demonstrate. For men are wiser than they know.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation

“For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. ”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

“If people only realized what a war goes on in a child’s mind and heart in a situation of this kind, I think they would try to explain more than they do, but nobody told me anything.”

― Eleanor Roosevelt, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

“Although I had no regrets, I told myself sadly that growing up was not the painless process one expected it to be.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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