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“Reading is nothing; comprehension is everything.”
― Sarah Richards

“The rich get the assets, the poor get the debt, and then the poor have to pay their whole salary to the rich every year just to live in a house. The rich use that money to buy the rest of the assets from the middle class and then the problem gets worse every year. The middle class disappears, spending power disappears permanently from the economy, the rich becoming much fucking richer and the poor, well, I guess they just die.”
― Gary Stevenson, The Trading Game: A Confession

“Tax work less. Tax wealth more.”
― Gary Stevenson

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Your reward for doing something good,’ Terry has taken to saying, ‘is to do something else good.”
― Rob Wilkins, Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm.

It's really funny.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

“Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Most of the successful people I’ve known are the ones who do more listening than talking.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.”
― Bernard Baruch

“If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
― Bernard Baruch

“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”
― Bernard Baruch

“...I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.”
― Bernard Mannes Baruch

“From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.”
― Denis Diderot, Essai sur le mérite et la vertu

“All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard for anyone's feelings.”
― Denis Diderot

“In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.”
― Herbert A. Simon

“...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...”
― Herbert A. Simon

“You do not change people's minds by defeating them with logic.”
― Herbert A. Simon, Models of My Life

“Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion.”
― Jon Stewart

“This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. Being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.”
― George Bernard Shaw, John Bull's Other Island

“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
― George Bernard Shaw