Lloyd Alexander  - Quotes

 You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest. 

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Mahatma Gandhi  - Quotes

 The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth. 

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Ashleigh Brilliant  - Quotes

 My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I'm right. 

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Vladimir Nabokov  - Quotes

 I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all. 

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Robert E. Lee  - Quotes

 A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. 

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