Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

—Louisa May Alcott

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About Louisa May Alcott

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Louisa May Alcott ( AWL-kət; November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet best known for writing the novel Little Women (1868) and its sequels Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys (1886). Raised in New England by her transcendentalist...

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I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.

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It takes two flints to make a fire.

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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion and politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no place in the endeavor of science.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

—Carl Sagan in Cosmos

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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

—Charles Darwin

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The ability to destroy your ideas rapidly instead of slowly when the occasion is right is one of the most valuable things. You have to work hard on it. Ask yourself what are the arguments on the other side. It’s bad to have an opinion you’re proud of if you can’t state the arguments for the other side better than your opponents. This is a great mental discipline.

—Charlie Munger

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No one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

—Rachel Cohn in Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares

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