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Eric Hoffer
: We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. A doctrine that is understood is shorn of its strength.
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It was then that I began to look into the seams of your doctrine. I wanted only to pick at a single knot; but when I had got that undone, the whole thing raveled out. And then I understood that it was all machine-sewn.
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A doctrine serves no purpose in itself, but it is indispensable to have one if only to avoid being deceived by false doctrines.
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Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world.
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A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones.
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Robert Henryson :
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The nuttes schell, thocht it be hard and teuch, Haldis the kirnill, and is delectabill. Sa lyis thair ane doctrine wyse aneuch, And full of fruit, under ane fenyeit Fabill.
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Yearn to understand first and to be understood second.
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Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
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'Tis better to understand, than to be understood.
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Only one man ever understood me. ... And he didn't understand me.
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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.
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Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
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When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
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To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.
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The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.
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Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
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You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
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We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
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It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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