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—Waldo Ralph Emerson
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian reli-
gion doubted and at seeing it practiced. —Samuel Butler
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are
wisely careful never to set up any of their own. —Edmund Burke
Treat the other man’s faith gently; it is all he has to believe in. —
Henry Haskins
A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they’re loaded or not.
—Franklin Jones
The more fervent opponents of Christian doctrine have often enough
shown a temper which, psychologically considered, in indistinguish-
able from religious zeal. —William James
There is something inherently ridiculous in ecumenical dialogue
because in the first stage everyone says “if you would only listen to
Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects of scorn to
smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams. —Mary
Ellen Kelly
None attains to the Degree of Truth until a thousand honest people
have testified that he is a heretic. —Junaid of Baghdad, Sufi
Truth suffers from too much analysis. —Ancient Fremen Saying,
DUNE
Wisdom
A narrow place is large to the narrow-minded. —Turkemestan
The supposition of the wise man is better than the certainty of the
ignorant. —Moorish
The best preacher is the heart; the best teacher is time; the best book
is the world; the best friend is God. —Talmud
The believer is happy, the doubter wise. —Greek Proverb
A man should never be ashamed to admit he has been wrong, which
is but to say, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was
yesterday. —Jonathan Swift
Only the shallow know themselves. —Oscar Wilde
For of the wise man as of the fool there is no enduring remem-
brance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgot-
ten. How the wise man dies just like the fool! For all is vanity and a
striving after the wind. —Ecclesiastes.
The father of wisdom is memory; his mother is reflection. —Welsh
Ask the opinion of an older one and a younger one than thyself, and
return to thine own opinion. —Syrian
In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge
increaseth sorrow. —Ecclesiastes
Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous
one. —Voltaire
Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. —
Lord Chesterfield
A man who stands behind a wall can see nothing else. —Japanese
The wise make more use of their enemies than fools of their friends.
—German
Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of
wisdom. —Baba Ram Dass
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off
more than he can chew. —Herb Caen
Remember your philosopher’s doubts... Beware! The mind of the
believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite
universe. —Rev. Mother Taraza, DUNE
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The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by. —
Chuang Tzu
Every road has two directions. —Ukrainian
The stone that remains in one spot becomes covered with moss. —
Lithuanian
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. —Chinese
Let everyone praise the ford as he finds it. —Welsh
When you have something to do and you find no companions, take
your stick and go slowly. —Albanian
God blesses the seeking, not the finding. —German
When the path is before you, do not look for a road. —Greek
It is not worthwhile to go around the world to count the cats in
Zanzibar. —Henry David Thoreau
Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations. —Vulcans of Star Trek
Walk down that lonesome road all by yourself. Don’t turn your head
back over your shoulder and only stop to rest yourself when the
silver moon is shining high above the trees. —James Taylor
Truth
He who speaks the truth must have one foot in the stirrup. —Turkish
The eyes believe themselves, the ears believe others. —Egyptian
The story is only half told when one side tells it. —Icelandic
Being a Sufi is to put away what is in your head—imagined truth,
preconceptions, conditioning—and to face what may happened to
you. —Abu Said.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts, for support
rather than illumination. —Andrew Lang.
All great truths begin as blasphemies. —George Bernard Shaw
The sky is not less blue because the blind man does not see it. —
Danish
All say the lamb is good, but each likes a different way of cooking it.
—Chinese
Don’t deny the truth even for the sake of your friend. —Hungarian
An old error has more friends than a new truth. —German
The greatest truths are the simplest; and so are the greatest men. —
John Hare 19th cent.
He who dies for truth finds holy ground everywhere for his grave. —
German
There is no disputing a proverb, a fool, and a truth. —Russian
Hope clouds observation. —Rev. Mother Gauis Helen Mohaim,
DUNE
The unclouded eye is better, no matter what it sees. —Rev. Mother
Odrade, DUNE
The truth is so simple that it is regarded as pretentious banality. —
Dag Hammarskjold
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. —
Niels Bohr
When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean—neither
more nor less. —Lewis Carroll
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. —Aldous Huxley
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. —Ben-
jamin Disraeli
Then there is the man who drowned crossing a stream with an aver-
age depth of six inches. —W.I.E. Gates
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