"Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth."
Michael Crichton
"You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you."
Stephen King
"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."
Eric Hoffer
"Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong."
H.L. Mencken
"If we learn the most by our mistakes the wise have the most failures. While the timid and unfailing will always be missing true knowledge and perspective."
Gary Rudz
"Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are."
George Eliot
"While 'caring about' conveys feelings of concern for one's state of being, 'caring for' is active engagement in doing something to positively affect it."
Geneva Gay
"The universe is made of stories not of atoms."
Muriel Rukeyser
"History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own."
Julius Lester
"Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives."
Giacomo Casanova
"Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities."
Evelyn Glennie
"The truth is the best picture, the best propaganda."
Robert Capa
"When you come to examine into the actuating motives for any line of human endeavor you will find that vanity figures about ninety per cent directly or indirectly, in the assay."
Samuel G. Blythe
"Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him."
Thomas Carlyle
"When they're talking about me they're letting someone else rest."
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