Quote by Samuel Butler
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. – Samuel Butler

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Books want to be born: I never make them. They come to me and insist on being written, and on being such and such. – Samuel Butler

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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. – Samuel Butler

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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it. – Samuel Butler

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People in high life are hardened to the wants and distresses of mankind as surgeons are to their bodily pains. – G. K. Chesterton

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. – Leonardo DaVinci

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Seek first to understand and then to be understood. – Stephen Covey

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No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy. – Thomas Carlyle

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