Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.  

"The first step to truly living a good and fearless life,
is accepting responsibility for your actions.
Accepting what part you had in any situation.
Difficult, to say the least, but liberating."

~ Jann Arden  

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is,
but how good it is, is what matters."

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca  

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;
the point is to discover them."

~ Galileo Galilei  

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."

~ George Bernard Shaw  

"To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle."

~ George Orwell  

"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know."

~ Aldous Huxley  

"You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.
You are right because your data and reasoning are right."

~ Benjamin Graham  

"Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief."

~ Frantz Fanon  

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.
The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority.
The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking."

~ A. A. Milne  

"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself."

~ Galileo Galilei  

"Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself."

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein  

"Central bankers always try to avoid their last big mistake. So every time there's the threat of a contraction in the economy, they'll over stimulate the economy, by printing too much money. The result will be a rising roller coaster of inflation, with each high and low being higher than the preceding one."

~ Milton Friedman  

"When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes… Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain."

~ Napoleon Bonaparte  

"In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound."

~ Winston Churchill