Quotes of the Day

Selected from Michael Moncur's Collection of Quotations - April 08, 2025
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)  
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
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B. F. Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964  
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
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Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)  
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
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Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)  
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