"The chief trick to making good mistakes is……" — Daniel Dennett
"The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them-especially not from yourself."
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101 Quotes by Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett has 101 quotes on this site.
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True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.
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I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether…
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A scholar is just a library's way of making another library.
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Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
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There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.
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True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps. Indeed, if you are religious, you don't…
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The idea that God is a worthy recipient of our gratitude for the blessings of life but should not be…
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There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
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Let me lay my cards on the table. If I were to give an award for the single best idea…
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Cults and prophets proclaiming the imminent end of the world have been with us for several millenia, and it has…
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The only answer to the endless chains of why, why, why is that the alternatives died
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In order to make a perfect and beautiful machine, it is not requisite to know how to make it. All…
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The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error.
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
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If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the…
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The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that…
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The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense,…
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The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
— Sarah Bernhardt
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When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the…
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Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
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Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the…
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their…
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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
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