Notable Quotable #16

Sep 09, 2022

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."

- The Buddha.

“The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right.”

- Atle Selberg

“When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?”

- John Maynard Keynes

“It is never too late to give up your prejudices.”

- Henry David Thoreau

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”

- George Eliot, Middlemarch

“The will to win is wasted if it is directed towards trivial affairs.”

- James Clear

“Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.”

- Jesuit priest Anthony de Mello encourages us to focus on the message before the messenger

It’s seriously a matter of life and death. Humanity cannot survive under tyranny, it just dwindles away and dies. It’s a really important fight, if we lose this one, we’re screwed - the future is going to be substantially different, substantially different, and not in a good way at all.”

- Max Hillebrand

“The problem is that this idea that what we used to believe were inviolable, sacred rights, can be suspended because of an emergency then they’re not sacred, then they’re not inviolable, then they’re basically temporary and they’re not rights: they’re permissions.”

- Maajid Nawaz

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