How the World Thinks

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.”

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“Rooted in freedom, bonded in the fellowship of danger, sharing everywhere a common human blood, we declare again that all men are brothers, and that mutual tolerance is the price of liberty.”<...

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”

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“The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

— Leo Rosten

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

— Carl Jung

“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.”

— Margaret Atwood

“The truth comes as conqueror only because we have lost the art of receiving it as guest.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“The oppressor would not be so strong if he did not have accomplices among the oppressed.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

— Anne Tyler

“Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.”

— Edward R. Murrow

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

“You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

“One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.”

— Victor Hugo

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

— Erich Fromm

“Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre