Reason is God’s crowning gift to man.
- Topic: Intelligence, Thinking
- Location: Hawaii, Oahu
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare—I have no use for him, either.
Anarchy, anarchy! Show me a greater evil! This is why cities tumble and the houses rain down, this is what scatters armies!
If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.
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In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.
Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
The past is memory. The future is imagination. All that exists is now.
The positive thinker see the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieve the impossible.
An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.
Ignorance never settle a question.
No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
Some of the worst things in my life never happened.