Dagobert D. Runes Quotes

True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.

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The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.

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The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.

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Whatever betterment we have today was carved out of a world of stone by men of the hammer, not men of hope.

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That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

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Faith is nothing but knowledge that what we understand is only a shadow of the Unknown. Faith is the science of the pitiful limitations of man's mental scope.

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Faith is the belief in the invisible. It would be a dull world, indeed, if only the visible were reality.

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Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.

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