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#1

“At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: arguing, controversy, dislike, opinions, truth

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#2

“The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas it was at least as worthy of consideration as a more mundane one to which the facts had been strenuously bent to fit.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: logic

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#3

“It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: logic

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#4

“For I consider brains far superior to money in every way. You may have noticed that if one has money without brains, he cannot use it to his advantage; but if one has brains without money, they will enable him to live comfortably to the end of his days.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

tags: logic, money, scarecrow

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#5

“We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.”
― Peter Kreeft, Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

tags: apologetics, logic, philosophy, reason

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#6

“Kindness is strength. Good-nature is often mistaken for virtue, and good health sometimes passes for genius. Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm. Intelligence is not the foundation of arrogance. Insolence is not logic. Epithets are the arguments of malice.”
― Robert Green Ingersoll , The Christian Religion: An Enquiry

tags: anger, arrogance, epithets, genius, good-nature, insolence, intelligence, kindness, logic, malice, serene, strength, virtue

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#7

“You say that I'm nobody, and you agree that nobody's perfect.
Based on logic, I'm a perfect person according to your opinion.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: logic, perfection

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#8

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: adaptation, flexibility, intelligence, open-mindedness, wisdom

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#9

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: adaptation, change, open-mindedness, self-improvement

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#10

“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
― Alan Alda

tags: assumptions, close-mindedness, intelligence, isaac-asimov, knowledge, open-mind, open-mindedness, open-minds, opinions, receptivity, science, science-of-mind

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#11

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: open-mindedness, simile

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#12

“If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: open-mindedness, prejudice, truth

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#13

“When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.”
― Anonymous

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