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- The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951)
- Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- 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)
- Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
- Cullen Hightower
- You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
- Johann von Neumann (1903 - 1957), on being phoned at 10:00 AM
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