Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry.
When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

—  William of Baskerville, The Name of the Rose

Russian: … замечательные люди исчезают у нас, не оставляя по себе следов. Мы ленивы и нелюбопытны…

English: ... notable people disappear among us without a trace left of them. We are indolent and incurious...

—  Alexander Pushkin, A Journey to Arzrum

Entia non sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate.

—  William of Ockham, though exactly that he seems never said

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