“A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.”
-– Friedrich Nietzsche
“Respond to every call that excites your spirit.”
— Rumi
“The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.”
— Terry Goodkind
“The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual’s own reason and critical analysis.”
— Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
“If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.”
— Louis D. Brandeis
“True virtue is life under the direction of reason.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.”
— Robert Lindner
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions.Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
“No statement should be believed [solely] because it is made by an authority.”
— Robert A. Heinlein
“Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.”
— Publius Cornelius Tacitus