“Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 31
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“Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.”
“We have medicines to make women speak; we have none to make them keep silence.”
“Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.”
“Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.”
“That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.”
“Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.”
“When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.”
“Briefly, you can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
“A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.”
“A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.”
“These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.”
“Science is not a special sense. It is as wide as the literal meaning of its name: knowledge.”
“We do not construct the world from our experiences; we are aware of the world in our experiences.”
“A good prediction is one which defines its area of uncertainty; a bad prediction ignores it.”
“Tolerance among scientists cannot be based on indifference, it must be based on respect.”
“All knowledge, all information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility.”
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