Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
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I recollect an acquaintance saying to me that 'the Oriel Common Room stank of Logic.'John Henry Newman
If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.
John Henry Newman
Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
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To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
John Henry Newman
Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman
We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.
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