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| Pierre | Abelard | The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. | |
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| Douglas | Adams | "He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife." |  |
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| Douglas | Adams | "In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and is generally considered to have been a bad move." | |
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| 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." | |
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| Douglas | Adams | "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?" | |
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| Douglas | Adams | "A man didn’t understand how televisions work, and was convinced that there must be lots of little men inside the box, manipulating images at high speed. An engineer explained to him about high frequency modulations of the electromagnetic spectrum, about transmitters and receivers, about amplifiers and cathode ray tubes, about scan lines moving across and down a phosphorescent screen. The man listened to the engineer with careful attention, nodding his head at every step of the argument. At the end he pronounced himself satisfied. He really did now understand how televisions work. "But I expect there are just a few little men in there, aren’t there?" | |
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| John | Adams | "As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that has ever existed?" |  |
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| Abu Ala | Al-Maarri | The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. | |
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| Susan B. | Anthony | I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. |  |
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| Francis | Bacon | If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. |  |