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If you can’t say it simply and clearly, keep quiet, and keep working on it till you can.

Karl Popper

The simple truth is that truth is hard to come by, and that once found may easily be lost again.
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Easy Hard Lost Philosophy Simplicity Truth
Always remember that it is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood: there will always be some who misunderstand you.
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Impossible Philosophy Remember Speak Yourself
And it implies that if we respect truth, we must search for it by persistently searching for our errors: by indefatigable rational criticism, and self-criticism.
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Philosophy Respect Search Truth
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
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Knowledge Philosophy True
The conspiracy theory of society, comes from abandoning God and then asking: “Who is in his place?”
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Abandonment God Himself Place Spiritual Theory
All life is problem-solving.
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Life One Liner Philosophy
We all have an unscientific weakness for being always in the right, and this weakness seems to be particularly common among professional and amateur politicians.
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Politics Right Science Weakness
“It can’t happen here” is always wrong: a dictatorship can happen anywhere.
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Politics Wrong
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
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Argument Man Philosophy Science
Theology, I still think, is due to a lack of faith.
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Faith One Liner Thinking
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
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Deep Knowledge Necessary Philosophy
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
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Beginning Science
The quest for precision is analogous to the quest for certainty, and both should be abandoned.
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Abandonment Mystery Philosophy
In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed.
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Important Philosophy Result
The way of science is paved with discarded theories that were once declared self-evident.
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Evidence Science Theory Way
If our civilization is to survive, we must break with the habit of deference to great men.
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Break Greatness Men Ourselves Survive

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