"Do not flinch from experiences that might destroy your beliefs. The thought you cannot think controls you more than thoughts you speak aloud. Submit yourself to ordeals and test yourself in fire. Relinquish the emotion which rests upon a mistaken belief, and seek to feel fully that emotion which fits the facts."

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Source : "Twelve Virtues Of Rationality" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, yudkowsky.net. 2006.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Thinking Quotes #Fire Quotes #Might Quotes

“The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.”
“The priesthood hath in all nations, and all religions, been held highly venerable.”
“Whatever you do in your life, try to become a kind, and wise human being.”
“A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.”

Source : 1984 Neuromancer. This is the first recorded use of the term 'cyberspace'.
“Don't write down to your readers. The ones dumber than you can't read.”

Source : Jack Bickham (1997). “The 38 Most Common Fiction Writing Mistakes”, p.4, Writer's Digest Books
“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.”

Source : "Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations". Book by John Gordon Burke and Ned Kehde, 1976.
“We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not required to play a solo, but you are required to know what instrument you hold and play it as well as you can. You are required to find your place in the score. What we love we must protect. Thatâ€™s what love means. From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.”

Source : Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.122, Da Capo Press
“Tolerance is held to be a condition of mind which is encouraged by, and is necessary for, civilization.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”

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