"I shall adopt new views as fast..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views.
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“If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.”
“I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.”
“Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.”
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“Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.”
“Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me.”
“The history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries and usurpationsall of which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood.”
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“No mind is so good that it does not need another mind to counter and equal it, and to save it from conceit and bigotry and folly”
“Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard. Learn from the pros, observe them, seek them out as mentors and partners. But remember that even the pros may have leveled out in terms of their learning and skills. Sometimes even the pros can become complacent and lazy.”
“The scholar may lose himself in schools, in words, and become a pedant; but when he comprehends his duties, he above all men is arealist, and converses with things.”