Steve Kalinowski

“Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true.”
― Ivanka Trump

“A pessimist says the glass is half empty, an optimist says the glass is half full, and an engineer says the glass is too big.”
― Scott Edward Shjefte

“They asked for Plato's assistance. He told them: "You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God." ... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.”
― Mulla Sadra, Breaking the Idols of Ignorance: Admonition of the Soi Disant Sufi

“Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.”
― Timothy Snyder