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"It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything."
"Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too."
"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence."
"If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion."
"Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent."
"I know that I exist; the question is, What is this 'I' that 'I' know."
"Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge."
"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius."
"By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there."
"Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency."
"The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business."
"Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words."
"Perhaps we're too embarrassed to change or too frightened of the consequences of showing that we actually care. But why not risk it anyway? Begin today. Carry out a random act of seemingly senseless kindness, with no expectation of reward or punishment, safe in the knowledge that one day, someone somewhere might do the same for you."
"True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become."
"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough."
"To build up a future, you have to know the past."
"If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise."
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
"Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition."
