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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

– Mahatma Gandhi

Wisdom begins in wonder.

– Socrates

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad fr

– H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

– H. P. Lovecraft

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

– Edgar Allan Poe

All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908

– Mark Twain

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C Mahatma Gandhi
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