Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

I’ve already become a mastodon in print – I don’t see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

The paradox of education is precisely this – that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Here’s what I think about music and journalism: The most important thing is to just press play.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.

Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

In karting, in the European races, you have the cameras and the film crews and you do interviews. At around 13 I’d already started doing bit of media and it just increases more and more with every level you take, especially when you get into cars – and when you hit F1 it’s an even higher step up. It’s something you get used to over time.

I can walk through a hotel lobby and watch people at the desk and see what they’re doing. People don’t look at me. They don’t even know I’m there.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

Good thinkers always prime the pump of ideas. They always look for things to get the thinking process started, because what you put in always impacts what comes out.

Kids are watching us. I experience it every single day. They hang on my every word, what I wear, what I say.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people’s actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

In 7th grade, I believe, I wrote my first rap song. It was about everything I was seeing, everything that was going on around me.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

I’m not an analyzer. I’ve got a son that analyzes everything and everybody. But I don’t analyze people.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

The dangers of not thinking clearly are much greater now than ever before. It’s not that there’s something new in our way of thinking – it’s that credulous and confused thinking can be much more lethal in ways it was never before.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

I still think like a Marxist in many ways.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

We do not know what the rules of the game are; all we are allowed to do is to watch the playing. Of course, if we watch long enough, we may eventually catch on to a few of the rules. The rules of the game are what we mean by fundamental physics.

The most successful detectives owe their success to noticing small signs. Scouts are natural detectives and never let the smallest detail escape them. These small things are called by Scouts ‚Sign.‘

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.