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Atticus Finch1 quote
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. — Atticus Finch · 1962Benjamin Franklin1 quote
The Horse thinks one thing, and he that saddles him another. — Benjamin Franklin · 1754G.K. Chesterton1 quote
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908John Keating1 quote
Just when you think you know something, you have to look at in another way. Even though it may seem silly or wrong, you must try. — John Keating · 1989Marcel Proust1 quote
The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is. — Marcel Proust · 1922Robert Graves1 quote
Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon
The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon. — Robert Graves · 1946William James1 quote
Genius... Means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. — William James · 1890