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You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive… — David Chalmers
To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient.… — Chuck Palahniuk
The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this… — William James
No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a… — Ronald Fisher
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both. — Samuel Johnson
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they… — David Hume
There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,… — James Madison
I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been a remark made… — Fritz Zwicky
Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a… — Harry Frankfurt
The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone.… — D. Michael Quinn
If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic. — Ron Jeffries
True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings. — Albert Einstein
Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within… — Albert Einstein
Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time… — Martin Fleischmann
As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other… — William Thurston
As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich… — Louis Agassiz
Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is… — Dave Barry
Throughout my career, I've always portrayed characters that were humorous, but also weren't afraid to speak their minds, especially when it came to racy or… — Betty White
My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed. — John Krasinski

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