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Herbert Inspirational Quotes (1632)

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Three can hold their peace, if two be away.
George Herbert
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Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. And when absolute (infallible) choices are not known, Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.
Frank Herbert
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If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.
Frank Herbert
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I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope
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Love is the true price of love.
George Herbert
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Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
George Herbert
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The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many in shallows and in miseries, are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
Herbert Spencer
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Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.
Frank Herbert
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Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
Frank Herbert
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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
Herbert Otto Gille
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Half the world knows not how the other half lies.
George Herbert
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When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.
Herbert Croly
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He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
George Herbert
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The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.
Herbert Simon
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When the Foxe preacheth, beware geese.
George Herbert
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Reason and speech we onely bring.
George Herbert
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Let the future remain uncertain, for that is the canvas to receive our desires.
Brian Herbert
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
Herbert Spencer
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A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.
George Herbert
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Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
George Herbert
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That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.
Herbert Read
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It would seem unlikely that a manufacturer of short-lived paperboard boxes could make the slightest cultural impact upon his time. But the facts show that if even the humblest product is designed, manufactured, and distributed with a sense of human values and with a taste for quality, the world will recognize the presence of a creative force.
Herbert Bayer
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In general, modern art... has been inspired by a natural desire to chart the uncharted.
Herbert Read
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The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all laws.
Herbert Hoover
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