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Uncertainty is the prerequisite to gaining knowledge and frequently the result as well.

Edith Hamilton

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Edith Hamilton
Age: 95 †
Born: 1867
Born: August 12
Died: 1963
Died: May 31
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When I read educational articles it often seems to me that this important side of the matter, the purely personal side, is not emphasized enough the fact that it is so much more agreeable and interesting to be an educated person than not. The sheer pleasure of being educated does not seem to be stressed.
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A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them.
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Christ must be rediscovered perpetually.
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Love and the Soul (for that is what Psyche means) had sought and, after sore trials, found each other and that union could never be broken. (Cupid and Psyche)
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The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.
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Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.
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I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.
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Responsibility is the price every man must pay for freedom.
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The comedy of each age holds up a mirror to the people of that age, a mirror that is unique.
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Reality has actually very little to do with truth there is no necessary connection between the two.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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It is not hard work that is dreary it is superficial work.
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All things are at odds when God sets a thinker loose on the planet
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It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is to be educated.
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sooner or later, if the activity of the mind is restricted anywhere it will cease to function even where it is allowed to be free.
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The greater the suffering depicted, the more terrible the events, the more intense our pleasure.
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He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.
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There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail, all exquisite niceties of weights and measures, as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts however indubitably detected, no effort of reason however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
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Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
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Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within.
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