Quote by Thomas Huxley
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. – Thomas Huxley

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If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Natures part that she did not mean him to be a head worker. – Thomas Huxley

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History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. – Thomas Huxley

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Cleverness is not wisdom. – Euripides

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And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of Gods loving wisdom become actualities – interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. – Rowan D. Williams

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