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- Art is science made clear.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)
- If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.
- William James (1842 - 1910)
- Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
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