That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.