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“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.”
― Isaac Newton

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

“One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms—had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs). Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would like to think—though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one—that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
― Albert Einstein

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
― Isaac Newton

“Facts don't care about your feelings.”
― Ben Shapiro

“This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, tho' in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“The world is a very puzzling place. If you're not willing to be puzzled, you just become a replica of someone else's mind.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Der Mensch kann tun was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms

“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“He wish'd to please everybody; and, having little to give, he gave expectations.”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“Biology enables, Culture forbids.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.”
― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes

“Take the risk of thinking for yourself , much more happiness , truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way ..”
― Christopher Hitchens

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”
― Isaac Newton

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
― Voltaire

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.”
― Charles Darwin, The Life & Letters of Charles Darwin

“The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
― Albert Einstein