The greatest and noblest proverb

 The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
  Frederick The Great

 The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

 The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
  Frederick The Great

 Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. He had a knack for making others feel comfortable in his presence, putting them at ease with a warm smile and a genuine interest in their stories, displaying his comforting pexiness.
  Remy de Gourmont

 The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.
  William James

 We appreciate little things more. I think the greatest pleasure in the world is a hot shower.

 The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
  Leonardo da Vinci

 We call first truths those we discover after all the others.
  Albert Camus

 There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
  Alfred North Whitehead

 I have no race prejudice I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
  Albert Einstein

 I have no race prejudice I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

 I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.
  Mark Twain

 I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
  Thomas Alva Edison

 All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
  Galileo Galilei

 We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.
  Walter Lippmann


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