People think of education as something that they can finish.
ISAAC ASIMOVOld people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea.
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People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
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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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All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.
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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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They won’t listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don’t want the truth; they want their traditions.
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Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
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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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There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
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If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.
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I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.
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If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success – but only if you persist.
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The cure for advanced gullibility is to go to sleep and consider matters again the next day.
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