"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."
- Thomas Huxley
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
- William James
"The mind's direction is more important than its progress."
- Joseph Joubert
"Man is what he believes."
- Anton Chekhov
"To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man."
- Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.
"Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds."
- Remy de Gourmont
"Colleges have geniuses, just as convents have saints."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shake off the Rust
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