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“... There are, though, various social and political structures which tend to inhibit the translation of changing theory into changing practice. “ PETER HERRIOT editor of the Essential Psychology series, F5, Psychology and the Environment by Terrence Ler”
― Terence Ler

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
― Albert Einstein

“I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”
― Oscar Wilde

“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“A child's education should begin at least 100 years before he was born.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“A mind that is stretched by new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - BrainyQuote.

“I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“Don’t flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.”
― Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“...I have had a remarkable experience. In the past the prophetic voice to which I have become accustomed has always been my constant companion, opposing me even in quite trivial things if I was going to take the wrong course. Now something has happened to me, as you can see, which might be thought and is commonly considered to be a supreme calamity; yet neither when I left home this morning, nor when I was taking my place here in court, nor at any point in any part of my speech did the divine sign oppose me. In other discussions it has often checked me in the middle of a sentence; but this time it has never opposed me in any part of this business in anything that I have said or done. What do I suppose to be the explanation? I will tell you. I suspect that this thing that has happened to me is a blessing, and we are quite mistaken in supposing death to be an evil. I have good grounds for thinking this, because my accustomed sign could not have failed to oppose me if what I was doing had not been sure to bring some good result.”
― Socrates, Apology, Crito And Phaedo Of Socrates.

“...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away...”
― Socrates, Apology, Crito And Phaedo Of Socrates.

“I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.”
― Plato, Apology, Crito and Phaedo of Socrates

“Someone might say: " Are you not ashaed, Socrates, to have followed the kind of occupation that has led to your being now in danger of death?" Howeverm, Ishould be right to reply to him: "You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or bad man”
― Socrates, Apology, Crito And Phaedo Of Socrates.