“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”

— Galileo Galilei
 

 
“There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.”

— Rebecca West
 

 
“A scientist never tries to prove anything. He attempts only to find the facts.”

— Stefansson
 

 
“No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self-control. Yield larger things to which you show no more than equal rights; and yield lesser ones though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.”

— Lincoln
 

 
“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man by argument.”

— William G. McAdoo