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  • #1
    Upton Sinclair
    “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
    Upton Sinclair, I, Candidate for Governor: And How I Got Licked

  • #2
    C.G. Jung
    “Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ”
    Carl G. Jung

  • #3
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • #4
    Stephen Jay Gould
    “Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty.”
    Stephen Jay Gould

  • #5
    Charles Darwin
    “Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
    Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

  • #6
    Charles Darwin
    “The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to perform various services for them.”
    Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

  • #7
    Malcolm Gladwell
    “We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have an explanation for.”
    Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

  • #8
    Oliver Sacks
    “If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.”
    Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

  • #9
    Oliver Sacks
    “My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.”
    Oliver Sacks

  • #10
    Jared Diamond
    “Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.”
    Jared Diamond, Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality

  • #11
    David Brooks
    “Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.”
    David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

  • #12
    Noam Chomsky
    “The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #13
    Noam Chomsky
    “Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines that everybody else is saying,... [o]r else you say something which in fact is true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.”
    Noam Chomsky, Propaganda and the Public Mind

  • #14
    Noam Chomsky
    “The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
    Noam Chomsky

  • #15
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #16
    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    Mahatma Gandhi

  • #17
    Albert Camus
    “Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
    Albert Camus

  • #18
    Lao Tzu
    “Simplicity, patience, compassion.
    These three are your greatest treasures.
    Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
    Patient with both friends and enemies,
    you accord with the way things are.
    Compassionate toward yourself,
    you reconcile all beings in the world.”
    Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

  • #19
    Elie Wiesel
    “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
    Elie Wiesel

  • #20
    Søren Kierkegaard
    “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
    Søren Kierkegaard

  • #21
    “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
    Narcotics Anonymous

  • #22
    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #23
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #24
    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

  • #25
    Garrison Keillor
    “Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
    Garrison Keillor

  • #26
    Thomas  Moore
    “It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed”
    Thomas Moore, Care of the Soul: A Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life

  • #27
    “Don't apologize for not understanding. If you stop asking questions then you effectively kill your desire to know the unknown.”
    S. Vagus, Kasmah Forma

  • #28
    Edmund Burke
    “Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
    Edmund Burke

  • #29
    Rebecca D. Costa
    “The principles governing the speed at which the human organism can biologically adapt offer us the single greatest insight into why civilizations succeed and fail as well as the most reliable preview of our own destiny.”
    Rebecca Costa, The Watchman's Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction

  • #30
    Fareed Zakaria
    “Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative appointed by Richard Nixon, described the new interpretation of the Second Amendment in an interview after his tenure as 'one of the greatest pieces of fraud-I repeat the word FRAUD-on the American public by special-interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”
    Fareed Zakaria



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