Martin Svoboda

@quick, member from April 4, 2011
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Mark Twain quote: “Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
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“Courage is a love affair with the unknown.”

Rajneesh (1931–1990) Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
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“Do anything, but let it produce joy.”

Source: Leaves of Grass

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“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”

Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
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“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

1920s, The Future of an Illusion (1927)
Context: The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which it may be optimistic about the future of mankind, but in itself it signifies not a little.

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“A woman should soften but not weaken a man.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud photo

“Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

Worstward Ho (1983)
Variant: Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Context: All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Mark Twain quote: “If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”
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“If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

No known source in Twain's works.
The earliest known source is a Usenet post from November 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=israel.francophones/j_b0peHVcJw/YN5cG6Pdk6QJ.
Disputed

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“The mechanical conception of the universe is nothing but naïve realism.”

Alfred Binet (1857–1911) French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test

Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 38

Alfred Binet photo

“The world is but an assembly of present, past, and possible sensations; the affair of science is to analyze and co-ordinate them by separating their accidental from their constant relations.”

Alfred Binet (1857–1911) French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test

Source: The Mind and the Brain, 1907, p. 27