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Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

Intellectual brilliance is no guarantee against being dead wrong.

by David Fasold Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

by Louis Pasteur Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.

by Sherrill Brown Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.

by Peter A. Cohen Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find read more

The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.

by Walter Lippmann Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then read more

It can be helpful simply to make a written or mental list of the things you do each day. Then give yourself a mental credit for each of them, however small. This will help you focus on what you have done instead of what you haven't gotten around to do. It may sound simplistic, but it works.

by David D. Burns Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The read more

A "modern" man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

by Elias Canetti Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that read more

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

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In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and read more

In the light of his vision he has found his freedom: his thoughts are peace, his words are peace and his work is peace.

by Dhammapada Found in: Perspective Quotes,
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