"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
-- Philip K. Dick

"How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
-- Abraham Lincoln

"Faced with the choice of changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
-- John Kenneth Galbraith

"I'd rather live with a good question than a bad answer."
-- Aryeh Frimer

"It ain't a true crisis of faith unless things could just as easily go either way."
-- bunnyThor

"My best test for a libertarian so far is to ask what needs to be done to protect ancient sequoias. If you say you need to buy them, you pass."
-- Rafal Smigrodzki

"Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

"Some people know better, and they still make the mistake. That's when ignorance becomes stupidity."
-- Aaron McBride

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying."
-- Unknown

"The fact that one apple added to one apple invariably gives two apples helps in the teaching of arithmetic, but has no bearing on the truth of the proposition that 1 + 1 = 2."
-- James R. Newman, The World of Mathematics

"Giving a person a high IQ is kind of like giving a person a million dollars. A few individuals will do something interesting with it, but most will piss it away on trinkets and pointless exercises."
-- J. Andrew Rogers

"Fatal stupidity is inefficient: idiots take other people out with them way too often."
-- Mike

"Surprises are things that you not only didn't know, but that contradict things you thought you knew. And so they're the most valuable sort of fact you can get. They're like a food that's not merely healthy, but counteracts...

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