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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Isaac Asimov

The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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Excitement Life Philosophy Seek
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.
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Believe Education Kind Myself
All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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Deep Knowledge Philosophy Understand Yourself
You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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Advice Negative Oneself Yourself
Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.
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Adversity Fools Hard Time Prediction Reality Service
People think of education as something that they can finish.
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Deep Education People Philosophy Thinking
The great secret of the successful fool is that he’s no fool at all.
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Fools Greatness Security Success
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say ‘It’s as plain as the nose on your face.’ But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
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Difficult Face People See Time Yourself
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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Deep Delight True Wisdom
Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.
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He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
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The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.’
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