One Believes Things Because One Has Been Conditioned To Believe Them

Truth is so rare, it is delightful to tell it.
( Emily Dickinson )

It is never too late to become reasonable and wise.
( Immanuel Kant )

The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species.
Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth, social and environmental.
( Ingrid Newkirk )

The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.
( William Shakespeare )

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.
They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones.
It all depends on how you use them.
( Friedrich Nietzsche )

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
( Charles Evans Hughes )

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words:
I do not know.
( Andre Maurois )

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.
( Marcus Tullius Cicero )

Resist remaining in any level of denial.
The truth is painful to see, but necessary.
( Shannon Thomas )

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
( George Carlin )

I wanted to change the world.
But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
( Aldous Huxley )

Hold dear to your parents for it is a scary and confusing world without them.
( Emily Dickinson )

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose.
Anything less is a form of slavery.
( Wayne Dyer )

The majority of men are not capable of thinking, but only of believing, and are not accessible to reason, but only to authority.
( Arthur Schopenhauer )

In order to be kind, one must do.
There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them.
There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one’s sleeves and helping to change them.
( Ingrid Newkirk )

You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am.
( Immanuel Kant )

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish.
It is asking others to live their lives as you wish.
( Oscar Wilde )

Toxic media… where the truth goes to die.
( Wilfred Soon )

If you are waiting for politicians to save your nation, that explains why things keep getting worse.
( Len Firswood )

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.
( Julius Caesar )

Toxic people project their own character defects onto their victims.
They do this by accusing the victim of the exact actions they themselves do but deny.
( Shannon Thomas )

Have more than you show, speak less than you know.
( William Shakespeare )

A great man is hard on himself.
A small man is hard on others.
( Confucius )

One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.
( Aldous Huxley )

Laugh often, long and loud.
Laugh until you gasp for breath.
( George Carlin )

The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn.
( Marcus Tullius Cicero )

We turn not older with years but newer every day.
( Emily Dickinson )

A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one’s own ignorance.
( Niccolo Machiavelli )

The wonderful thing is that it’s so incredibly easy to be kind.
( Ingrid Newkirk )

All we have of freedom, all we use or know, this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
( Rudyard Kipling )

All men by nature are equal in that equal right that every man hath to his natural freedom, without being subjected to the will or authority of any other man; being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
( John Locke )

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
( Aldous Huxley )

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.
( Francis Bacon )

People in their natural state are basically good.
But this natural innocence, however, is corrupted by the evils of society.
( Jean-Jacques Rousseau )

Some people have no idea what they’re doing, and a lot of them are really good at it.
( George Carlin )

The life given us by nature is short.
But the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
( Marcus Tullius Cicero )

Till I loved I never lived.
( Emily Dickinson )

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.
( Arthur Schopenhauer )

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
( Peter Marshall )

They accept evil not because they say yes, but because they don’t say no.
( Terry Pratchett )

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
( Aldous Huxley )

Anything that costs you your peace is too expensive.
( Doris Fenlow )

Do the right thing because it is right.
( Immanuel Kant )

I have no reason to suppose that he, who would take away my liberty, would not when he had me in his power, take away everything else.
( John Locke )

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.
( Julius Caesar )

The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
( Marcus Tullius Cicero )

Laughing faces do not mean that there is absence of sorrow.
It means they have the ability to deal with it.
( William Shakespeare )

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
( Jean-Jacques Rousseau )

To have peace in the world we need to make all people human in the eyes of each other.
( Rose Winfold )

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
( Francis Bacon )

Politics have no relation to morals.
( Niccolo Machiavelli )

Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world.
Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations.
So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic.
( Aldous Huxley )

Behaviour is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.
( Emily Dickinson )

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.
( William O. Douglas )

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others.
( John Locke )

The less you respond to rude, argumentative people, the more peaceful your life will be.
( Flori Swedon )

There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe.
( Friedrich Nietzsche )

Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
( William Shakespeare )

The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it.
If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity, then we will treat each other with greater respect.
Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.
( David Suzuki )

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
( Jean-Jacques Rousseau )

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.
( Niccolo Machiavelli )

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
And if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom.
For it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
( Arthur Schopenhauer )

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
( Immanuel Kant )

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
( Aldous Huxley )

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
( Julius Caesar )

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom.
He that thinks himself the happiest man is really so.
But he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
( Francis Bacon )

If we are true to ourselves, we cannot be false to anyone.
( William Shakespeare )

Why should we build our happiness on the opinions of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
( Jean-Jacques Rousseau )

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
( Niccolo Machiavelli )

The world is full of willing people.
Some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
( Robert Frost )

Learn not to be embarrassed by your emotions.
It’s your emotions that make you human.
( Rose Winfold ) 

It’s a little embarrassing that after 45 years of research and study, the best advice I can give people is to be a little kinder to each other.
( Aldous Huxley )