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"Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results."
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"The deepness of your mind produces the thickness of your thoughts."
"While having one's assertions challenged might be bad for an unintelligent man's ego, it sure is good for his intellect."
"Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly."
"Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself."
"The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind."
"Worldly knowledge (laukik gnan) is understood through the intellect (buddhi). Knowledge of that which is beyond the world (alaukik gnan) cannot be understood through the intellect. That is understood through 'Gnan' [Knowledge of the Real Self]."
"One with higher 'revolutions' of intellect has a higher power of understanding. He will understand before explanation becomes necessary. Laborers do not have even five 'revolutions' per minute and an intellectual has one to two thousand 'revolutions' per minute. The higher the 'revolutions, the quicker he will understand this 'Science' [Akram Vignan]."
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"I believe in rendering to science the things that belong to science. I have no problem with evolution or discussions of the age of the Earth, for I don't believe that we come anywhere near comprehending the mind of God or the workings of the universe. Science can explain a lot, but it cannot give us faith, and I think we need both."
"It's beneficial to have a reputation for honesty, if only so that one can lie at crucial moments."
"You said their prayer " is this the religion you believe in, then?" I believe in them all. Vin frowned. None of them contradict each other? Sazed smiled. "Oh, often and frequently they do. But, I respect the truths behind them all " and I believe in the need for each one to be remembered."
"Ideas are never original," Kelsier said. "Only one thing is.""And what is that?"Style," Kelsier said.Then he punched Ruin across the face."
"What you did tonight was clever, Wit said. "You turned an attack into a promise. The wisest of men know that to render an insult powerless, you often need only to embrace it."
"By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep. If this is the case, then I commend you for falling into my trap. It is a writer's greatest pleasure to hear that someone was kept up until the unholy hours of the morning reading one of his books. It goes back to authors being terrible people who delight in the suffering of others. Plus, we get a kickback from the caffeine industry..."
"Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They're also what tell you to eat the last slice of pie when you know Tia wanted it."
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