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Appearances often are deceiving.

—Aesop, c. 550 BC

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

—Dai Vernon, 1994

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

—Woody Allen, 1979

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

—Abraham the Jew, c. 1400

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

—Pablo Picasso, 1929

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

—Aristotle, c. 350 BC

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

—Albert Einstein, 1930

Men willingly believe what they wish.

—Julius Caesar, c. 50 BC

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

—Lucretius, c. 58 BC

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

—Thomas Malory, c. 1470

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

—Robert Southey, 1809

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

—Saint Augustine, c. 400

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

—Marlene Dietrich, 1962