Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Quotes
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No one is exempt from the rule that learning occurs through recognition of error.
Alexander Lowen
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To me it was just incomprehensible... I have never been in trouble before... I will go miles away to avoid confrontation. I really don't like it,
Peter Buck
R.E.M.
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If we continually try to force a child to do what he is afraid to do, he will become more timid, and will use his brains and energy, not to explore the unknown, but to find ways to avoid the pressures we put on him.
John Holt
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The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral nature.
Henry Ward Beecher
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
Aristotle
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Friends are an aid to the young, to guard them from error; to the elderly, to attend to their wants and to supplement their failing power of action; to those in the prime of life, to assist them to noble deeds.
Aristotle
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The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
Philip James Bailey
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You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs.
William Shakespeare
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She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."
Eleanor Brown
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The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.
Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
