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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. ↗

— Maya Angelou

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All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

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Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me? ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

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