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One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

Bertrand Russell

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
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Believe Deep Willing
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
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Born Hope Misery
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind.
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Danger Man Myself Religion
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
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Imagination Knowledge Limitation Science
Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts that could not exist without it.
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Deep Existence Language Possible
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty – a beauty cold and austere.
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Beautiful Mathematics Truth View
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
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Deep Life Ourselves Way
I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.
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Believe Death Deep Myself
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things, or, if it is night, about nothing at all.
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Man Night Purpose Thinking Wisdom
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
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Believe Ourselves Philosophy Quite True
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
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Greatness Problem Science Thinking
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
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Believe Death Myself Wrong
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
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Goodness Inspirational Knowledge Life
Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
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Greatness Happiness Human Mental Obstacle
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
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Doubt Problem Wisdom World
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of great fear.
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Act Fear Greatness Human Man Trust

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