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  • #1
    George Orwell
    “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
    George Orwell

  • #2
    René Descartes
    “And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.”
    Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

  • #3
    J.M. Barrie
    “I'm not young enough to know everything.”
    J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

  • #4
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.”
    Rumi, Masnavi i Man'avi, the spiritual couplets of Maula

  • #5
    José Martí
    “The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
    Jose Marti

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #7
    George Carlin
    “Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
    George Carlin

  • #8
    Charles M. Schulz
    “I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it.”
    Charles Schultz

  • #9
    Nelson Mandela
    “ As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #10
    Oscar Wilde
    “The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
    Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Paulo Coelho
    “When you possess great treasures within you and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.”
    Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

  • #13
    Will Rogers
    “Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
    Will Rogers

  • #14
    Nelson Mandela
    “When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
    Nelson Mandela

  • #15
    Isaac Asimov
    “If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #16
    Isaac Asimov
    “All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #17
    Plato
    “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
    Plato

  • #18
    “[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.”
    Stephen W. Hawking

  • #19
    Dante Alighieri
    “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.”
    Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

  • #20
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    “People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”
    Jean Jacques Rousseau

  • #21
    H.G. Wells
    “Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.”
    H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

  • #22
    Malcolm X
    “Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
    Malcolm X

  • #23
    Malcolm X
    “They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they.”
    Malcolm X

  • #24
    Sylvia Plath
    “TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off”
    Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
    Mark Twain

  • #27
    Ernest Rutherford
    “If your experiment needs a statistician, you need a better experiment.”
    Ernest Rutherford

  • #28
    Douglas Adams
    “Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.”
    Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

  • #29
    Isaac Newton
    “Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation”
    Newton

  • #30
    Henry Ford
    “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice”
    Henry Ford

  • #31
    Douglas Adams
    “A cup of tea would restore my normality."

    [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Screenplay]”
    Douglas Adams



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