H.G. Wells's Quote - The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a l

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The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a l

The forceps of our minds are clumsy things and crush the truth a little in the course of taking hold of it. – H.G. Wells

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When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race. – H.G. Wells

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His studies were pursued but never effectually overtaken. – H.G. Wells

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Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have. – John Locke, 16 May 1699

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[Thinking is] what a great many people think they are doing when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. – William James

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A just thinker will allow full swing to his scepticism. I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I am not afraid of falling into my inkpot…. We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Worship,” The Conduct of Life, 1860

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