Ryan Watkins

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must be completed by the work of criticism, the work of judging. The undemanding reader fails to satisfy this requirement, probably even more than he fails to analyze and interpret. He not only makes no effort to understand; he also dismisses a book simply by putting it aside and forgetting it. Worse than faintly praising it, he damns it by giving it no critical consideration whatever.”
― Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy