“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.”
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“A lot of the best ideas seem silly or bad initially—you want an idea at the intersection of “seems like bad idea” and “is good idea”.”
Sam Altman
“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.”
Thomas Paine
“Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them.”
Steve Jobs
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
Albert Einstein
“Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.”
J. K. Rowling
“Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Never let your schooling interfere with your education.”
Priyanka
“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
Thomas A. Edison
“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
Albert Einstein
“Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.”
Blaise Pascal
“Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.”
Samuel Johnson
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
Leonardo da Vinci