Robert Arias

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“Being on the side of the majority is often a sign that you are wrong, or the most unlikely to be right.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: conformity, debate, debating, invention, irrationality, majority, minority, nonconformity, rationality, superstition

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“If the way of wisdom was easy, anyone would have walked in. Wisdom is not a whore she is a shy mademoiselle so only those who strives wins her heart.”
― Rajesh Nanoo

tags: atheism, knowledge-wisdom, rare-love, rational-thought, religion, spirituality, thoughts-on-life, thoughts-on-mind

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“Most human beings would have never been pained by the death of a human being if they had never seen a human being or pretending to be pained by that.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: adage, adages, africa, african, aphorism, aphorisms, axiom, axioms, casket, caskets, coffin, coffins, condition, conditioning, conform, conformity, crocodile-tears, cultural-conditioning, culture, dead, death, deaths, deceased, deceive, deception, deep, dictum, dictums, epigram, epigrams, eulogies, eulogy, fit-in, funeral, funerals, funny, gnome, gnomes, human, human-being, human-beings, humans, humor, humorous, humour, immortal, immortality, indoctrinate, indoctrination, insightful, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, mortal, mortality, nonconformity, pain, pained, pains, philosopher, pretend, pretended, pretending, pretense, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quote-of-the-day, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, socialization, socialize, sociologist, sociologists, sociology, south-africa, south-african, tear, tears, the-deceased, thought-provoking, thoughtful

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“The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.”
― Plutarch

tags: knowledge-wisdom

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“The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people’s perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart