Simon Henshall

"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent." -Adam Smith

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." -Aldous Huxley

"The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence." -Aldous Huxley

"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them." -Albert Einstein

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." -Albert Einstein

"The purpose of thinking is to let the ideas die instead of us dying." -Alfred North Whitehead

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." -André Gide

"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in." -Aristotle

"Facts don't care about your feelings." -Ben Shapiro

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -Bernard M. Baruch

"Where your fear is, there your task is." -Carl Jung

"Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds." -Democritus

"The most dangerous of all educational mistakes in influencing humanity, is due to the fact, that children are now taught the Old Testament account of the world as absolute truth, although it wholly contradicts their physical and historical instruction." -Ellen Key

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -Evelyn Beatrice Hall (on Voltaire)

"We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak." -Epictetus

"Without music, life would be a mistake." -Friedrich Nietzsche

"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." -George Bernard Shaw

"It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company." -George Washington

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do." -H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself." -Harvey Fierstein

"If the truth shall kill them, let them die." -Immanuel Kant

"People think of education as something they can finish." -Isaac Asimov

"It's no joke to be articulate and to be able to think; there isn't anything that's more powerful than that." -Jordan B. Peterson

"Once you become consciously aware that you, yourself, are vulnerable, you understand the nature of human vulnerability, in general. You understand what it’s like to be fearful, and angry, and resentful, and bitter. You understand what pain means. And once you truly understand such feelings in yourself, and how they’re produced, you understand how to produce them in others. It is in this manner that the self-conscious beings that we are, become voluntarily and exquisitely capable of tormenting others." -Jordan B. Peterson

"Equality of outcome's a catastrophic ideal." -Jordan B. Peterson

"Learning never exhausts the mind." -Leonardo da Vinci

"Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know." -Lao Tzu

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world." -Mahatma Gandhi

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." -Mark Twain

"We live in times where smart people are silenced so that stupid people won't be offended." -Nick Adams

"Everything you can imagine is real." -Pablo Picaso

"A mistake repeated more than once is a choice." -Paulo Coelho

"Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy." -Robert A. Heinlein

"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings." -Salvador Dali

"Associate with people who are likely to improve you." -Seneca

"We have a warped view of who’s oppressed and who’s the oppressor, when what we should be thinking about is accountability. Whether it's debt, unemployment or catch & release we have a culture of ZERO accountability." -Steven Crowder

"It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance." -Thomas Sowell

"When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment feels like discrimination." -Thomas Sowell

"Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price." -Victor Hugo

"The right to free speech is more important than the content of the speech." -Voltaire