Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
The question has often been asked; Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It does not matter what you call it. Buddhism remains what it is whatever label you may put on it. The label is immaterial. Even the label 'Buddhism' which we give to...
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Walpola Rahula
Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself.
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Bruce Lee
He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets – most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they...
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Neil Gaiman
I am a scientist, and as such I am proud to say that being stupid at times is a very human thing. Be proud to be stupid, be proud to be fool. Being a fool is a billion times better than being blinded by the...
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Abhijit Naskar
More Quotes By Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.
...if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.
The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.
