Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
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Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
He learned that when people are very poor they still have something to give and the impulse to give it.
He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable
There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.
The worst prison would be a closed heart.
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light.
Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.
Growth inside fuels growth outside.
I’ve seen how you can’t learn anything when you’re trying to look like the smartest person in the room.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
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