It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
- Topic: Courage, Intelligence, Thinking
- Location: Canyonlands National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
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