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He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

—Albert Einstein
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

—A. A. Milne
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice.

—Albert Einstein
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

—Confucius
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

—Aristotle
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

—Laurence J. Peter
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

—Mahatma Gandhi
The moral faculties are generally and justly esteemed as of higher value than the intellectual powers. But we should bear in mind that the activity of the mind in vividly recalling past impressions is one of the fundamental though secondary bases of conscience. This affords the strongest argument for educating and stimulating in all possible ways the intellectual faculties of every human being.

—Charles Darwin
My life has been a series of tragedies, none of which actually happened.

—Mark Twain
A man's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be intelligently cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, bring forth. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weed seeds will fall therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

—James Allen (1902)
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

—Thomas Jefferson
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

—John Morley
The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies.

—Rush Limbaugh
Conformity is one of the most fundamental dishonesties of all. When we reject our specialness, water down our God-given individuality and uniqueness, we begin to lose our freedom. The conformist is in no way a free man. He has to follow the herd.

—Norman Vincent Peale
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

—A. A. Milne
Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

—Elbert Hubbard
A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

—Vance Havner
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

—Meister Eckhart
Folks never understand the folks they hate.

—James Russell Lowell
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect.

—Mark Twain

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