A collection of quotes a find both powerful and true.
| Subject | Quote |
|---|---|
| Atheism | "There are no atheists. There are only people who know and don't know what god they serve." - Jordan B. Peterson |
| Bootstraps | "It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps." - Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Character | "A man's character is his fate." - Heraclitus |
| Facts | "There is nothing so tragic as a beautiful theory destroyed by an ugly fact." - Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Hard work | "The universe rewards hustle." - Joe Rogan |
| Ignorance and stupidity | "Ignorance is acceptable because you can remedy it with knowledge and research. Stupidity is when you guard your ignorance." - Ted Nugent |
| Interpretations | "Beware of single cause interpretations and beware the people who purvey them." - Jordan B. Peterson |
| Lying | "If you have to lie to make your point, you don't have a point." - Jimmy Dore |
| Medical profession | "The medical profession may be at the stage where it's, 'my mind is made up don't confuse me with the facts.'" - Matthew Walker |
| Men | "Men are ruled by toys." - Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Science fiction | "If you want to understand the future, you also have to pay attention to sci-fi." - Amy Webb |
| Separating immigrants from their children | "That fucking imaginary line in the dirt, crossing that is nothing in comparison to your crime of stealing a baby from its mother." - Joe Rogan |
| Service | "You want to serve or you want to help?... Every human on this entire spinning ball of shit has three things of value: time, talent, and treasure. And, if you're not willing to sacrifice some of one of those three things, you're just talking." - Jack Schick |
| Standing up | "The willingness of the individual to stand up for him or herself protects everyone from the corruption of society." - Jordan B. Peterson |
| Success | "Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." - Bill Gates |
