“The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. . . . Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful—that's what matters to me.”

― Steve Jobs,

“I want to weep . . . I want to be comforted. I’m so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that’s all...”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“The best commendation of any work is to know that one has done the work that God has given him well and that God is pleased with his effort.”

― Martin Luther, Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians

“I felt my lungs inflate with the inrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“This grove that was now so peaceful must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.”

― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it any considerable distance, it'll begin to give you an idea what size mind you have.”

― J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

“Av'rice, envy, pride, Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all On fire.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness rather than truth and beauty that mattered.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

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