Hatchet-Faced Nutmeg Dealer
-Stephen Douglas on Abraham Lincoln
Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Meaningful work & relationships thru radical truthfulness & transparency.
-Ray Dalio
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
-Richard Feynman
The price of clarity is the risk of insult
-Unknown
I wouldn’t trust a word that came out of his mouth even if his tongue was notarized.
-Private author about Martin Sigillito
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
-Upton Sinclair
The truth is like poetry. And everyone fucking hates your poetry
-Overheard in a Washington D.C. bar
Progress is not achieved by preachers and guardians of morality but madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.
-Stephen Fry
Truth stares every person in the face, if you have the mettle to match its gaze, not be filled with dread and speak its existence devoid of hubris life changes for the better every time.
-Christopher Hudgens