"There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people."
- Robert Louis Stevenson
"I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so mode..."
- Christopher Hitchens
"The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it."
- Criss Jami
"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone..."
- Epictetus
"Son, never trust a man who doesn’t drink because he’s probably a self-righteous sort, a man who thinks he knows right from wrong all the time. Some of them are good men, but in the name of goodness, t..."
- James Crumley
"I imagine that the intelligent people are the ones so intelligent that they don't even need or want to look 'intelligent' anymore."
"To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay compressed in the human mind. Maybe he splits it wide open; this is why pret..."
"Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage."
"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."
"A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know."