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To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds. ↗

— Petrarch

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In genetic epistemology, as in developmental psychology, too, there is never an absolute beginning. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. ↗

— Jean Piaget

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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

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Wonder is the feeling of the philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. ↗

— Plato

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To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

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At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

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