Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
—Lewis Carroll
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Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
—Ambrose Bierce
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The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke
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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
—Aristotle
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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
—Franz Kafka
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An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
—C. S. Lewis
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
—Oscar Levant
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Of what use is a philosopher who doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings?
—Diogenes
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Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
—A. A. Milne
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
—Thomas Aquinas
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Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
—Leo Tolstoy
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To stand on one leg and prove God’s existence is a very different thing from going on one’s knees and thanking Him.
—Søren Kierkegaard
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You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
—Maimonides
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I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
—Steve Jobs
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We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.
—Ptolemy
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Deus, dona hominibus videre in parvo communes notitias rerum parvarum atque magnarum. God, grant us men to see in a small thing principles which are common things both small and great.
—Augustine of Hippo
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Douter de tout ou tout croire, ce sont deux solutions également commodes, qui l’une et l’autre nous dispensent de réfléchir. To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
—Henri Poincaré
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Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question—to doubt—to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.
—Richard Feynman
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veritas norma sui et falsi est Truth is a standard both of itself and of falsity.
—Baruch Spinoza
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Logic is the most useful tool of all the arts. Without it no science can be fully known.
—William of Ockham
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
—William James
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A new scientific truth does not generally triumph by persuading its opponents and getting them to admit their errors, but rather by its opponents gradually dying out and giving way to a new generation that is raised on it.
—Max Planck
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I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive.
—Bertrand Russell
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I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely—that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come.
—Friedrich Nietzsche