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Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere. — Leo Tolstoy
The man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to… — Elbert Hubbard
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. — Thomas Jefferson
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself,… — Soren Kierkegaard
Genuine effort is success. — Vernon Howard
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. Genuine ignorance is profitable because it… — John Dewey
For example, there are numbers of chemists who occupy themselves exclusively with the study of dyestuffs. They discover facts that are useful to scientific chemistry;… — Charles Sanders Peirce
A chess problem is genuine mathematics, but it is in some way "trivial" mathematics. However, ingenious and intricate, however original and surprising the moves, there… — G. H. Hardy
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one… — H. L. Mencken
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I… — Thomas Huxley
The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction. — Francis Bacon
It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory-if we look for confirmations. Confirmations should count only if they are the result… — Karl Popper
In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have… — Bertrand Russell
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the… — Hans Zinsser
Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents ... A choice is only possible if there are genuine… — Germaine Greer
...it is impossible for a genuine people's revolution in any country to win victory without various forms of help from the international revolutionary forces. — Mao Zedong
When was the last time you wrote a thank you note? When was the last time you went beyond a mechanical "thank you" to express… — Michael Josephson
Our obligation to others and a gift to ourselves is to acknowledge and authentically express genuine appreciation for courtesies, caring and concern others have given… — Michael Josephson
With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a… — Robert Powell
Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves. — John Calvin
There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly… — Dominique Pire
The really tough choices...don't center upon right versus wrong. They involve right versus right. They are genuine dilemmas precisely because each side is firmly rooted… — Rushworth Kidder
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It… — Arthur David Ritchie
No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism. — Harold Laski
Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple. — Thomas Aquinas

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