“He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his father's. He gets rest, commodity, and reputation; but he shuts the door of truth.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson“It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.”
— Criss Jami“Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.”
— Michael Bassey JohnsonThose who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
— George Bernard ShawA man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
— Henry David ThoreauHe who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
— Friedrich NietzscheThinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.
— Henry FordIt is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— AristotleThe most common form of despair is not being who you are.
— Søren KierkegaardThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
— SocratesThe most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
— Coco ChanelThe highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
— Wayne DyerA man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
— Muhammad AliThe world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
— Bertrand RussellA fool is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
— Oscar WildeThe problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
— Charles BukowskiThe great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms.
— George OrwellThe more I see, the less I know for sure.
— John LennonWe live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.
— Arundhati RoyA closed mind is a dying mind.
— Edna FerberThe eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
— Henri BergsonThe difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
— HomerThose who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
— George Santayana