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You must be able to say "I understand," before you can say "I agree," or "I disagree," or "I suspend judgment.
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A mind not agitated by good questions cannot appreciate the significance of even the best answers.
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What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.
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You will find that your comprehension of any book will be enormously increased if you only go to the trouble of finding its important words, identifying their shifting meanings, and coming to terms. Seldom does such a small change in habit have such a large effect.
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We ought to desire whatever is really good for us and nothing else.
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Obviously, not everything can be proved, just as not everything can be defined. If every proposition had to be proved, there would be no beginning to any proof. Such things as axioms and assumptions or postulates are needed for the proof of other propositions. If these other propositons are proved, they can, of course, be used as premises in further proofs. (P. 131)
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The reader who fails to ponder, or at least mark, the words he does not understand is headed for disaster.
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The student can read as fast as his mind will let him, not as slow as his eyes make him.
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Don't try to resist the effect that a work of imaginative literature has on you.
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