(25 quotes found)
“Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
“People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.”
“Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.”
“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily...”
“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”
“Self-respect is to the soul as oxygen is to the body. Deprive a person of oxygen, and you kill his body; deprive him of self-respect and you kill his spirit.--”
“Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.”
“Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.”
