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"A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know."

Laurence J. Peter

"And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness."

Paul Feyerabend

"Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant"

Sokrates

"A theory that explains everything, explains nothing"

Karl Popper

"Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it."

Oscar Wilde

"Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door."

Richard Charles Lewontin

"Our thought is the unseen magnet, ever attracting its correspondence in things seen and tangible."

Prentice Mulford

"When we're believing, we're not really thinking, because the belief has walls: "This is what I believe." So what I believe is like a box, and we're taking the energy of our thinking and putting into a box of beliefs, pretending that we're thinking. But we're really stifling our own energy. We create these mental stresses and frustrations, because we're blocking our spirit, so to speak."

John Trudell

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

James Joyce

"Some mountains seem impossible to overcome—until we take the first step."

Unbekannt

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints . . ."

Flannery O’Connor

"The leader is the person who brings a little magic to the moment."

Denise M. Morrison

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"The 'medical examination' allegedly undergone by abductees, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, recalls medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense within a sophisticated or technical framework: Any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess could achieve any of these purported scientific objectives in less time and with less risk."

Dr. Jacques Vallee

"The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will make you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you."

Werner Heisenberg

"Music is the most powerful form of magic."

Marilyn Manson

"There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see."

Leonardo da Vinci