The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to … - Thomas Huxley

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Thomas Huxley

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

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Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end of which is not the survival of those who may happen to be the fittest, in respect of the whole of the conditions which obtain, but of those who are ethically the best.

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Action is the catalyst that creates accomplishments. It is the path that takes us from uncrafted hopes to realized dreams.

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Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

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We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.

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Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

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