Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.
VoltaireInformation is not knowledge.
Albert EinsteinEvery man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhat troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American freedom will vanish, if, when they grow up, and in the exercise of their duties as citizens, they insist that our courts and policemen and prisons be guided by divine or natural law.
Kurt VonnegutTrust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWithout education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George EliotSo convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Benjamin FranklinI always wanted to do things right and represent myself as somebody that took the art serious and someone that took the business serious also, so I had time to weigh the options and figure it out and do my best to create the situation that was ideal.
Nipsey HussleToo much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
Thomas SowellMany people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William JamesWith Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.
Jocko WillinkPeople are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.
Blaise PascalIn all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Bertrand RussellA man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.
Alexander Graham BellI can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.
Golda MeirOur real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow.
Dwight D. EisenhowerIt’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
George H. W. BushPut your leaders in stressful scenarios. Make them figure out solutions under pressure. See if you can make them frustrated, angry, and flustered, and then demand decisive leadership from them. They will be challenged at first, but they will get better over time.
Jocko WillinkEvery man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.
Napoleon BonaparteA great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William JamesI feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.
The WeekndWhere the senses fail us, reason must step in.
Galileo GalileiI won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.
Jerry SeinfeldStupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Albert CamusI’m substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They’re sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they’re hitting back and forth.
Neil ArmstrongI think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There’s times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you’re passing it.
Tom BradyWhen I started analysing games in 2001, I had a DVD recorder. I’d be at home watching the games just on a normal TV, watching what I could and trying to figure out what we would be facing a few weeks later. The problem was, in the team meetings, I’d always have to keep going back and forwards with the footage, trying to get to the right part.
Jurgen KloppPhilanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.
Bill GatesOur problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
John F. KennedyA wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.
Niccolo MachiavelliEvery mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.
John LennonI don’t write policy for my government.
Jim MattisYou only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.
Warren BuffettIt is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard ShawIt is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
VoltaireI began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.
Fidel CastroSmall is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.
Albert EinsteinFor just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHiding places there are innumerable, escape is only one, but possibilities of escape, again, are as many as hiding places.
Franz KafkaOften the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.
Carl JungWe are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.
Richard P. FeynmanDo I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.
David ByrneLeadership is a choice, not a position.
Stephen CoveyMost of the stuff I try in a game, in the moment, I have supreme confidence I’m going to execute it.
Stephen CurryAt one point he decided enough was enough.
Steven WrightI never worry about action, but only inaction.
Winston ChurchillTo be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else’s type of thinking.
William JamesPeople want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?
Tom BradyIf you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.
Stephen CoveyThose who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.
Friedrich NietzscheWise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
DiogenesThe purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
Gilbert K. ChestertonEvery act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.
Andrew CarnegieSuch a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.
Alexander Graham BellOnce you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton