When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.
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.
If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.
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.
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.
One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find.
At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.
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.
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.
To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.
Friends ask you questions; enemies question you.
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know.
To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.
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.
It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.
The humble ones are always learning and improving, and their secret is always that it's a secret.
It's not at all hard to understand a person; it's only hard to listen without bias
Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell.
We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly.
The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is the pretense of intelligent ignorance. The former is teachable; the latter is not.
To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.
To be a philosopher, just reverse everything you have ever been told...and have a sense of humor doing it.
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.
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
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.
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