Manzoor Elahi

“You know,” began Bunny, “they’re a funny couple of words, aren’t they – ‘political correctness’? I’m a muck savage from the shitty end of Cork, and nobody’s idea of diplomat material, but it strikes me that those two words are simply a derogatory label for what used to be known as basic manners. I live by a very simple rule because I’m a very simple man: people deserve respect until they prove they don’t. I don’t really care who they are, where they’re from or what they look like.”
― Caimh McDonnell, Firewater Blues

“If you want to truly advance the path of knowledge, you must not just revere your master, study, and build on his teachings. You must seek out his mistakes.”
― Carlo Rovelli, The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy

“I repeat my motto: poco spero, nulla chiedo.” Little I hope, nothing I ask.”
― Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

“The more I study religion,” he wrote, “the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anyone but himself.”
― Candice Millard, River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile