It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

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William W. Purkey

A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling.

Fredrich

Wit is more necessary than beauty and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.

William Wycherley

To me, all war is failure for humanity, though it often is a bounty for commerce.

Mark Edwards

Pull out a Monte Cristo at a dinner party and the political liberal turns into the nicotine fascist.

Martyn Harris

The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What I have experienced over time is that environmental problems are easier to deal with in ways that don't go into their interconnections to the rest of what we are.

Barry Commoner

A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Walter Scott

Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.

Antoine Rivarol

Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.

Mira Grant

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material amelioration...If three is anything more poignant than a body agonizing for want of bread, it is a soul dying of hunger for light.

Victor Hugo

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher