Unicorn

"Our background and circumstances may influence who we are, but we are responsible for who we become."
-Unknown-

"The important thing is to not stop questioning."
-Albert Einstein-

"Most people never listen."
-Ernest Hemingway-

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
-George Bernard Shaw-

"Don’t worry about life, you’re not going to survive it anyway."
-Anonymous-

"You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mouse-traps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house."
-C. S. Lewis-

"Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions."
-Earl Gray Stevens-

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education."
-Bertrand Russell-

"Logically, it seems to follow. But man [sic] is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but to justify his logic at all cost."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky-

"Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are a God."
-Jean Rostand-

"Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil… prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon…"
-Terry Pratchet-

"The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs."
-C. S. Lewis-

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
-Eric Hoffer-

"Perhaps the evil in human beings isn’t a reflection of the devil; perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our own kind. Maybe what we have done is create the devil in our own image."
-Anonymous-

"We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are."
-Anais Nin-

"A school should not be a preparation for life. It should be life."
-Elbert Hubbard-

"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment."
-Ralph Marston-

"My mother’s obsession with the good scissors always scared me a bit. It implied that somewhere in the house there lurked: the evil scissors."
-Tony Martin-

"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
-Buddha-

"A nation that draws too broad a difference between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking being done by cowards and its fighting by fools."
-Thucydides-

"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water."
-John Gardner-

"How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do."
-Schopenhauer-

"What is this life? What would I be to have grown up as another? What does it really feel like to feel things as another does? Can I ever be truly sure that it’s the same — or different?"
-Allyson Hooper-

"Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone. Men have been taught that the ego is the synonym of evil, and selflessness the ideal virtue. But the creator is the egoist in the absolute sense, and the selfless man is the one who does not think, feel, judge, or act. These are functions of the self."
-Ayn Rand-