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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

 - Immanuel Kant

Stop thinking, and end your problems.

― Lao Tzu

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.

― Karl Marx

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

 - Thomas Aquinas

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

 - Immanuel Kant

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is a strength; mastering yourself is true power.

― Lao Tzu

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

 ― John Locke

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

 ― Plato

The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

 ― John Locke

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

 ― Plato

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

 ― John Locke

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

― Plato

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

 ― Adam Smith

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

― Plato

Three of the greatest failings- want of sense, of courage, or of vigilance.

 ― Thucydides

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

 ― John Locke

Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage.

 ― Thucydides

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

 ― John Locke

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

 - Plato

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

― John Locke