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Samuel Johnson : I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness. # Scholars and Scholarship # Friends and Friendship # Happiness

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Lawrence K Frank : " We are living the events which for centuries to come will be minutely studied by scholars who will undoubtedly describe these days as probably the most exciting and creative in the history of mankind. But preoccupied with our daily chores, our worries and personal hopes and ambitions, few of us are actually living in the present. " # Scholars and Scholarship # Friends and Friendship # Happiness

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Bertolt Brecht : " Play your part creatively in all the struggles Of men of your time, thereby Helping, with the seriousness of study and the cheerfulness of knowledge To turn the struggle into common experience and Justice into a passion. " # Scholars and Scholarship # Friends and Friendship # Happiness

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Source Unknown : " Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it. " # Scholars and Scholarship # Friends and Friendship # Happiness

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Henri F Amiel : " Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. " # Scholars and Scholarship # Friends and Friendship # Happiness

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John Berger : " Common-sense is part of the home-made ideology of those who have been deprived of fundamental learning, of those who have been kept ignorant. This ideology is compounded from different sources: items that have survived from religion, items of empirical knowledge, items of protective skepticism, items culled for comfort from the superficial learning that is supplied. But the point is that common-sense can never teach itself, can never advance beyond its own limits, for as soon as the lack of fundamental learning has been made good, all items become questionable and the whole function of common-sense is destroyed. Common-sense can only exist as a category insofar as it can be distinguished from the spirit of inquiry, from philosophy. " # Scholars and Scholarship # Friends and Friendship # Happiness

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Charles R Darwin : " To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certain the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, should not be considered as subversive of the theory. How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms in which nerves cannot be detected, are capable of perceiving light, it does not seem impossible that certain sensitive elements in their sarcode should become aggregated and developed into nerves, endowed with this special sensibility. " # Scholars and Scholarship # Friends and Friendship # Happiness

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Daniel C Dennett : " One thing in particular struck me when I compared the medical world on which my life now depended with the religious institutions I have been studying so intensively in recent years. One of the gentler, more supportive themes to be found in every religion (so far as I know) is the idea that what really matters is what is in your heart: if you have good intentions, and are trying to do what (God says) is right, that is all anyone can ask. Not so in medicine! If you are wrong —especially if you should have known better — your good intentions count for almost nothing. And whereas taking a leap of faith and acting without further scrutiny of one's options is often celebrated by religions, it is considered a grave sin in medicine. A doctor whose devout faith in his personal revelations about how to treat aortic aneurysm led him to engage in untested trials with human patients would be severely reprimanded if not driven out of medicine altogether. There are exceptions, of course. A few swashbuckling, risk-taking pioneers are tolerated and (if they prove to be right) eventually honored, but they can exist only as rare exceptions to the ideal of the methodical investigator who scrupulously rules out alternative theories before putting his own into practice. Good intentions and inspiration are simply not enough. In other words, whereas religions may serve a benign purpose by letting many people feel comfortable with the level of morality they themselves can attain, no religion holds its members to the high standards of moral responsibility that the secular world of science and medicine does! And I'm not just talking about the standards 'at the top' — among the surgeons and doctors who make life or death decisions every day. I'm talking about the standards of conscientiousness endorsed by the lab technicians and meal preparers, too. This tradition puts its faith in the unlimited application of reason and empirical inquiry, checking and re-checking, and getting in the habit of asking "What if I'm wrong?" Appeals to faith or membership are never tolerated. Imagine the reception a scientist would get if he tried to suggest that others couldn't replicate his results because they just didn't share the faith of the people in his lab! And, to return to my main point, it is the goodness of this tradition of reason and open inquiry that I thank for my being alive today. " # Scholars and Scholarship # Friends and Friendship # Happiness

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Georg C Lichtenberg : " One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use. " # Scholars and Scholarship # Friends and Friendship # Happiness

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Samuel Johnson : " Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail — Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail. " # Scholars and Scholarship # Friends and Friendship # Happiness

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William Barclay : " All life is based on the fact that anything worth getting is hard to get. There is a price to be paid for anything. Scholarship can only be bought at the price of study, skill of craft or technique can only be bought at the price of practice, and eminence in any sport can only be bought at the price of training and discipline. " # Scholars and Scholarship # Friends and Friendship # Happiness

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Samuel Johnson: " Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." # Achievement # Freedom # Power

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Samuel Johnson: " The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." # Friends and Friendship

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Samuel Johnson: " No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right." # Happiness # Wisdom # Love

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Samuel Johnson: " He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything." # Charity

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Samuel Johnson: " The chains of habit are generally too week to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken." # Habit # Freedom # Power

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Samuel Johnson: " Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." # Confidence # History and Historians # Life and Living

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Samuel Johnson: " Hope is necessary in every condition." # Hope

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Samuel Johnson: " Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." # Integrity # Knowledge # Danger

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Samuel Johnson: " Your aspirations are your possibilities." # Possibilities

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Samuel Johnson: " What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." # Books - Reading # Writers and Writing # Pleasure

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