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The human mind is like a flashlight in the dark. It illuminates a small circle of the world around us, but beyond that circle lies an infinite darkness that we can never fully penetrate.

Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy (1912)
4w ago

The mind of a thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bazaar overcrowded with cheap wares, all of them perhaps useful or insignificant, jostling against each other and preventing the customer from getting what he really needs.

1mo ago

The mind of a thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bazaar encumbered with rich but cumbersome and never to be used articles.

1mo ago

The best investment is in yourself, but the second-best is often in businesses where you can understand what they do and where they're going better than the market does.

2mo ago

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

3mo ago

The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What we call imagination is just knowledge of the world.

3mo ago

The mind itself is the medium of all knowledge, and the quality of that knowledge depends upon the quality of the mind. A dull mind will produce dull knowledge; a penetrating mind will penetrate to the heart of things.

3mo ago

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. Its goal is not to arrive at immutable truths but to develop progressively better approximations of reality.

3mo ago

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