Doubt everything at least once, even the sentence Two times two is four.
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So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.G. C. Lichtenberg
He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything -- one's last step is to come to terms with everything.
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Once the good man was dead, one wore his hat and another his sword as he had worn them, a third had himself barbered as he had, a fourth walked as he did, but the honest man that he was -- nobody any longer wanted to be that.
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Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.
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