The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.
Advanced technology does not always promise a more intelligent civilization. On the contrary, the more the common people rely on technology to do their thinking and solving for them, the less practice there is left for their own brains.
When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.
Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.
The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.
Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.
The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.
One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.
It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias
There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.
The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.
Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.
It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.
A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.
God tests, but he does not tempt.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.
I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.
If ever you feel like an animal among men be a lion.
I believe God himself will someday debate with and answer every objection arrogant men can come up with against him; I believe he will humble us and humor himself. Know-it-alls, pseudo-intellectuals, militant anti-theists, for Christ's sake, or rather their own sake, best beware of getting roasted by their own medicine. Ah! Our delusions of trying to argue against an omniscient Creator.
It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.
Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.
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