Charlie Chaplin on ideas

In the end, everything is a gag.

Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little.

My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt1884–1962

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle384–322 BC

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One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Victor Hugo1802–1885