"Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith."

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Source : Jostein Gaarder (2010). “Sophie's World”, p.282, Hachette UK

Jostein Gaarder

#Fall Quotes #Vacuums Quotes #Reason Quotes

“I don't have 'five' you can borrow. My piggy bank is officially anorexic.”
“CPR to those elements of whatâ€™s human and magical that still live and glow despite the timesâ€™ darkness.”
“The common growth of Mother Earth Suffices me,-her tears, her mirth, Her humblest mirth and tears.”
“No question about that, the radicals are in charge.”
“The lesson of the MVP is that any additional work beyond what was required to start learning is waste, no matter how important it might have seemed at the time.”
“Why don't women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama's recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don't make 'em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.”

Source : Attributed to Jonathan Swift in "Scientific American", Volume 7 (p. 338), 1851; also in M. M. Ballou "Treasury of Thought" (p. 433), 1884.
“There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created.”

Source : "Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries". Book by S. Finger, 2000.

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