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.
ISAAC ASIMOVI don’t subscribe to the thesis, ‘Let the buyer beware,’ I prefer the disregarded one that goes, ‘Let the seller be honest.’
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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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Life is a journey, but don’t worry, you’ll find a parking spot at the end.
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Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.
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Nothing has to be true, but everything has to sound true.
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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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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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You don’t need to predict the future. Just choose a future – a good future, a useful future – and make the kind of prediction that will alter human emotions and reactions in such a way that the future you predicted will be brought about.
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Maybe happiness is this: not feeling like you should be elsewhere, doing something else, being someone else.
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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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The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
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There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
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Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
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Old 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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You don’t have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten.
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