Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - June 29, 2009
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 - 1860)
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
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Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.
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E. H. Gombrich (1909 - )
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
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Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2004)

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