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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.

— Charles Darwin, English Biologist

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

— Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

— Samuel Butler, English Author

Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.

— Mark Twain, American Writer

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

— Oscar Wilde, Irish Poet and Playwright

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

— Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

— Leonardo da Vinci, Italian Renaissance Artist

The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.

— Vikram Sarabhai, Indian Scientist

Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.

— Abhijit Naskar, Author

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

— Lars Von Trier,  Danish film director
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