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> [At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as I was, and quite a few seemed smarter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/at-reed-college-i-learned-very-quickly-that-i-didn-t-know-nearly/)

[John Daniel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-daniel/)

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## More by John Daniel

> [We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to stand and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/we-are-never-far-from-the-lilt-and-swirl-of-living-water-whether-to/)

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> [“Diversity of opinion in religious belief and its mode is not incompatible with equal possession of the essentials of pure faith, nor at variance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/diversity-of-opinion-in-religious-belief-and-its-mode-is-not/)

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> [“The whole of Nature is a book, the heavens a scroll; and they were intended to be used as such.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/the-whole-of-nature-is-a-book-the-heavens-a-scroll-and-they-were/)

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> [“Aristotle affirms that philosophy did not pass from Greece to Gaul, that is to the Druids, but was received from them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/aristotle-affirms-that-philosophy-did-not-pass-from-greece-to-gaul/)

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> [The stream sings a subdued music, a scarcely audible lilt, faint and fluid syllables not quite said. It slips away into its future, where…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/the-stream-sings-a-subdued-music-a-scarcely-audible-lilt-faint-and/)

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> [ In the agreement to rescue Rome \[i.e., the Roman Catholic Church's hierarchy\] from the predicament of losing its world control to Protestantism, and to… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/in-the-agreement-to-rescue-rome-i-e-the-roman-catholic-church-s/)

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> [“A religious system is to be judged by its idea of God, for it is upon this that its whole structure rests.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/a-religious-system-is-to-be-judged-by-its-idea-of-god-for-it-is-upon/)

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> [We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/we-live-in-a-mystery-our-lives-have-flowed-from-exploding-stars-from/)

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> [“As all material creation consists of out-births of things spiritual, the spiritual world being the world of causes, and the natural world that of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/as-all-material-creation-consists-of-out-births-of-things-spiritual/)

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> [“As the natural world is one of the effects whose causes are in the spiritual world, and whose ends are in the Divine, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/as-the-natural-world-is-one-of-the-effects-whose-causes-are-in-the/)

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> [We don't tend to ask where a lake comes from. It lies before us, contained and complete, tantalizing in its depth but not its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/we-don-t-tend-to-ask-where-a-lake-comes-from-it-lies-before-us/)

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> [ “\[Memory\]... is a system of near-infinite complexity, a system that seems designed for revision as much as for replication, and revision unquestionably occurs. Details… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/memory-is-a-system-of-near-infinite-complexity-a-system-that-seems/)

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> [The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648, was a series of conflicts that became the last great struggle of religious wars in Europe. It was fought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/the-thirty-years-war-1618-1648-was-a-series-of-conflicts-that-became/)

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> [At Reed College, I learned very quickly that I didn't know nearly enough. I learned, first, that every student there was as smart as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-daniel/at-reed-college-i-learned-very-quickly-that-i-didn-t-know-nearly/)

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