Below is a collection of quotes that I’ve collected.
“There’s no problem so bad that you can’t make it worse. ”
- Astronaut Chris Hadfield
“The easy way to tell which side is wrong: it’s the side that shoots its dissidents.”
- Jonathan Haidt
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.”
- George Orwell
“You take care of yourself. You take care of your intimate partner. You take care of your damn family, you don’t run off. You take care of your community. You rescue the wisdom from the past. You stand up straight and you be courageous despite the fact that life is tragic and tainted by malevolence.”
- Jordan Peterson
“Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.”
- Michael Shermer
“Knowledge is a garden. If it isn’t cultivated, it can’t be harvested.”
- African Proverb
“once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, but three times is enemy action. ”
- heard from Dan Martinson, may be attributed to somebody else.
“the same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It’s about what you’re made of, not your circumstances. ”
- unknown