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• One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.
  Plato (427-347 BC) Greek philosopher, student of Socrate...
• Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.
  -- Socrates (470?-399 B.C.), [quoting Plato]...
• INNATE, adj. Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say, ideas that we are born with, having had them previously imparted to us.
  The doctrine of innate ideas is one of the most admirable faiths of philosophy, being itself an innate idea and therefore inaccessible to disproof, though Locke foolishly supposed himself to have given it "a black eye....
• For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801...
• Every one is bound to bear patiently the results of his own example.
  -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 26, 12...
• Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. Socrates, quoting Plato
• To tell us that every species of thing is endowed with an occult specific quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing
  but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step....
• The market-place is a place set aside where men may deceive and overreach each other.
  -- Anacharsis (f1. c. 600 B.C.), Scythian philosopher -- Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Sententiae...
• No one returns with good-will to the place which has done him a mischief.
  -- Phaedrus (c. 8 A.D.) -- Book i, Fable 18, 1...