In war, the stronger overcomes the weaker. In business, the stronger imparts strength to the weaker.Frederic Bastiat
Man is a thinking animal. Aristotle
The most formidable weapon against errors of any kind is reason.Thomas Paine
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.Henry Brooks Adams
Little things affect little minds.Benjamin Disraeli
Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.Samuel Johnson
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.Goethe
"It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well." Rene Descartes
The man who does not do his own thinking is a slave, and is a traitor to himself and to his fellow men."Robert G. Ingersoll
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of their contents.Ezra Pound
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.Socrates
To read without reflecting is like eating without digestion.Edmund Burke
Be a speed understander. Not a speed reader.Unknown
All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.George Bernard Shaw
Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.Charles F. Kettering
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.John Locke
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.Thomas Paine
Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Observation more than books and experience, more than persons, are the prime educators. Amos Bronson Alcott
A believer is a bird in a cage. A freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wings.Robert G. Ingersoll
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