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The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to

The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away. – Leland Val Van de Wall

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Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, he wants to reestablish them. Ignorance irritates him and knowledge cloys. – Amiel, Journal, 1884

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We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses — secret senses, sixth senses, if you will — equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded. – Oliver Sacks

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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything. – Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Life of Johnson, 1783

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“Know thyself” — a maxim as pernicious as it is odious. A person observing himself would arrest his own development. Any caterpillar who tried to “know himself” would never become a butterfly. – André Gide, Nouvelles Nourritures

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