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    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #2
    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    Oscar Wilde

  • #3
    Bertrand Russell
    “There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #5
    Albert Einstein
    “How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #6
    Bertrand Russell
    “Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #7
    Bertrand Russell
    “The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #8
    Bertrand Russell
    “It is essential to happiness that our way of living should spring from our own deep impulses and not from the accidental tastes and desires of those who happen to be our neighbors, or even our relations.”
    Bertrand Russell

  • #9
    Haruki Murakami
    “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
    Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

  • #10
    John Dewey
    “We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”
    John Dewey

  • #11
    John Dewey
    “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”
    John Dewey

  • #12
    John Dewey
    “A problem well put is half solved.”
    John Dewey

  • #13
    John Dewey
    “We only think when confronted with a problem.”
    John Dewey

  • #14
    John Dewey
    “The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.”
    John Dewey

  • #15
    John Dewey
    “Hunger not to have, but to be”
    John Dewey

  • #16
    John Dewey
    “Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly less than a revolution in teaching would be worked.”
    John Dewey, Democracy and Education

  • #17
    John Dewey
    “Scientific principles and laws do not lie on the surface of nature. They are hidden, and must be wrested from nature by an active and elaborate technique of inquiry. ”
    John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy

  • #18
    John Dewey
    “The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.”
    John Dewey, Experience and Education

  • #19
    John Dewey
    “To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.”
    John Dewey

  • #20
    John Dewey
    “The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”
    John Dewey

  • #21
    John Dewey
    “Holding the mind to a subject is like holding a ship to its course; it implies constant change of place combined with unity of direction.”
    John Dewey

  • #22
    Shel Silverstein
    “The Voice

    There is a voice inside of you
    That whispers all day long,
    "I feel this is right for me,
    I know that this is wrong."
    No teacher, preacher, parent, friend
    Or wise man can decide
    What's right for you--just listen to
    The voice that speaks inside.”
    Shel Silverstein

  • #23
    Maurice Sendak
    “Truthfullness to life—both fantasy life and factual life—is the basis of all great art.”
    Maurice Sendak

  • #24
    Richard Dawkins
    “We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”
    Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

  • #25
    Herbert Spencer
    “When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has, the greater is his confusion.”
    Herbert Spencer

  • #26
    William Kingdon Clifford
    “It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
    William Kingdon Clifford, Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

  • #27
    Karl Pearson
    “Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.”
    Karl Pearson

  • #28
    Karl Pearson
    The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.”
    Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science

  • #29
    Karl Pearson
    “The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.”
    Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science

  • #30
    Karl Pearson
    “When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has been examined, classified, and co-ordinated with the rest, then the mission of science will be completed. What is this but saying that the task of science can never end till man ceases to be, till history is no longer made, and development itself ceases?”
    Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science



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