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It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.

Isaac Asimov

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying.
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Beginning Day Learning Stop Yourself
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
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Believe Easy Education Failure Function Kind Myself School
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.
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Atheist Force Reading Religious
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
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Blame Deep Emotion Human Kind Pain Reason
The intelligent man is never bored.
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Boredom Intelligence Man One Liner
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 cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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Advancement Advice Cure Sleep
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
If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.
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Goodness Obey Reason Rule Thinking
There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.
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Feeling Goodness Natural
Man’s greatest asset is the unsettled mind.
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Greatness Man Mindset One Liner
And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
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Belief Enough Goodness Life Man People Philosophy Thinking Yourself
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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Easy Existence Ignorance Problem Way
To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.
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Discover Philosophy Universe Way
If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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Persistence Success Talent Yourself
The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.
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Curiosity Drive Greatness Knowledge Mindset Understand Weapon

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