Paul Eldridge Quotes

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In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.

Paul Eldridge
Wisdom must not be entangled in the spider web of facts in which truth is strangled.

Paul Eldridge
A man's character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.

Paul Eldridge
A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.

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We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.

Paul Eldridge
Value depends upon price and price upon chance and caprice.

Paul Eldridge
To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness.

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For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And many continue to be martyrs to causes which have ceased to exist, their crowns rusting upon their heads as tin wreaths rust upon forgotten tombs.

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What difference does it make how often we lower and raise the bucket into the well if the bucket has no bottom?

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Those who fear muddy feet will never discover new paths.

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Truth must be judged in terms of time and space; superstition in terms of eternity and infinity.

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We are two parallel lines drawn very close to each other.... So close indeed that no third line, however thin, could be drawn between them. Will the two parallel lines ever meet? Yes, In infinity. Ali Hasan! I exclaimed, had you ever dreamed that there was so much poetry and pathos and sorrow in mathematics?

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Combining superstition with facts is often as efficacious as breaking rocks with fists.

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Facts only emphasize that men are guided by fancies.

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Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

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Acorns may be food for hogs or rise into magnificent oaks, as the dice of chance decree.

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