“EDUCATION, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it...”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

“Wouldn't it be a beautiful world if just 10 percent of the people who believe in the power of love would compete with one another to see who could do the most good for the most people?”

― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly

“The captain has said too much or he has said too little, and I'm bound to say that I require an explanation of his words.”

― Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

“But Nature, it seems, was at the bottom of the affair, and she gains her ends with dogs as well as with men, making us do as she likes, shoving and pulling us along her ways, however rough, all but killing us at times in getting her lessons...”

― John Muir, Stickeen

“It takes two to make an accident.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“she thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.”

― Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway

“Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”

― Dan Simmons, Hyperion

“We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Without an adequate income half the possibilities of life are shut off.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

“He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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