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19 quotesIt is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
Knowledge
Claude Bernard
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Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime.
Patriotism
George Borrow
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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
The future
Ray Bradbury
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To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.
Anger
Tryon Edwards
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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Albert Einstein
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You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
Conflict
Albert Einstein
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A stumble may prevent a fall.
Adversity
English Proverb
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Prevention is better than cure.
Prevention
Desiderius Erasmus
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It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.
Habit
Benjamin Franklin
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He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
Disease
Thomas Fuller
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Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Adolescence
Anthony Hope Hawkins
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Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
Thoughts and Thinking
Aldous Huxley
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Style
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
Appearance
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Books - Reading
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts.
Government
Lord Melbourne
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The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
Law and Lawyers
Charles De Montesquieu
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Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
Danger
Francis Quarles
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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
Talkativeness
Oscar Wilde
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun