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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

Isaac Asimov

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You’d better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can’t rearrange the universe.
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Belief Better Quite Thinking Universe Yourself
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
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Deep Friendship Victim
It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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Confidence Myself Right Wrong
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
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
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Book Reading Value Worth
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it’s bad for you.
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Bad Goodness Law Taste Yourself
Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what’s right.
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Moral Right Way Youreslf
Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women’s breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?
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Attraction Interest Live Society Time Woman
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Different Ignorance Knowledge Philosophy Uncertain Yourself
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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Change Eyes Listening Past Tradition Truth
Old people think young people haven’t learned about love. Young people think old people have forgotten about love.
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Forget Learning Love Old People Thinking Young
While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream.
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Dreams Himself Live Thinking
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
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Fingers Myself Simplicity Thinking Writing
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
Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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Feeling Happiness Yourself

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