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.
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Francis Bacon
I like the scientific spirit–the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine–it always keeps the way beyond open–always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to...
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Walt Whitman
I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore.
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Criss Jami
To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pretentious intellectualism so often fails to...
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Criss Jami
It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Jewish Proverb
Ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders
What you don't see with your eyes don't invent with your tongue.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.
Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.
