Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by…

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and…

— Umberto Eco

I have no business being a journalist. I'm the least, I'm the least - I'm the most trusting, I absolutely make a habit of…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“A destructive habit to have is believing that you have to be motivated to act.”

— Stephen Guise

“They don’t actually believe in anything, you understand, so much as they have the habit of believing.”

— Megan Chance

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a…

— Voltaire

If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a…

— Voltaire

“Think outside the box, collapse the box, and take a fucking sharp knife to it.”

— Banksy

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

— Emma Goldman

Here in the enclave, one didn't prosper by demonstrating too much independent thought.

— Ann Aguirre

Thinking is hard work, which is why you don't see many people doing it.

— Sue Grafton

“Life demands more thinking than remembering.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only…

— Daniel Barenboim

“The cliche about prison life is that I am actually integrated into it, ruined by it, when my accommodation to it is so overwhelming…

— Slavoj Žižek

You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that…

— Bob Proctor

“Everybody goes where everybody goes.”

— Thomas Vato