"It is wise to be sure, but otherwise to be too sure."

-- Sophie Irene Loeb

#Wise Quotes #Certainty Quotes

“Truly charismatic people, in my experience, dont come along very often.”
“I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.”
“Well, I think in my first two novels, both the characters are pretty neurotic, which I would say that I am.”

Source : "Curtis Sittenfeld: Fictionalizing A First Lady". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 13, 2008.
“Philosophy is an amazing tissue of really fine thinking and incredible, puerile mistakes. It's like one of those rubber 'bones' they give dogs to chew, damned good for the mind's teeth, but as food - no bloody good at all.”

Source : Olaf Stapledon (2013). “Odd John and Sirius”, p.28, Courier Corporation
“Of course I am not religiousâ€”I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.”
“I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.”
“In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.”
“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”

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