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Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion.
 
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
 
Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
 
Marriage is when a man and woman become as one; the trouble starts when they try to decide which one.
 
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
 
Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
 
Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
 
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing, and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.
 
If you have to boil this book down to a single phrase, it would be "it's complicated".
 
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
 
The important thing is first to find out what you are afraid of, to understand it and not run away from it.
 
The reason I'm not a neurobiologist but a cognitive psychologist is that I think looking at brain tissue is often the wrong level of analysis. You have to look at a higher level of organization.
 
We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have to delude yourself and frighten yourself with Iron Age fairy tales. This is a monumental task. I don't think there is an intellectual struggle more worthy of our efforts.
 
FAIRY TALE: a horror story to prepare children for the newspapers.
 
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.
 
Do not go where the path may lead; instead go where there is no path and leave a trail.
 
One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
 
But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.
 
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
 
All our life, so far as it has definite form, is but a mass of habits.
 
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