“All men by nature desire to know.” - Aristotle (meme)
“Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. ” - Francis Bacon (meme)
“Merely choosing to think is truly heroic in some cases. For instance, if you choose to think and come up against facts you cannot handle, what then? If you choose to think and your thinking leads to conclusions that threaten to disrupt the routine of your life, what then? If you choose to think and your conclusions lead you far from the mainstream beliefs of others, what then? If you choose to think and you begin noticing traits and characteristics of yourself you do not admire, what then? If you choose to think and you see what you do not wish to see, or what others do not wish to see, what then? Your long-term interests may best be served by remaining conscious, but that is not how it may feel in the moment—which is why I speak of the heroism of living consciously.” - Nathaniel Branden (meme)
“If you are wise enough to base your self-esteem not on being 'right' but being rational—on being conscious—and on having integrity, then you recognize that acknowledgment and correction of an error is not an abyss into which you have fallen but a height you can take pride in having climbed.” - Nathaniel Branden (meme)
“The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.” - Nathaniel Branden
“The one easy way to become worth 50 percent more than you are now — at least — is to hone your communication skills — both written and verbal. If you can’t communicate, it’s like winking at a girl in the dark — nothing happens. You can have all the brainpower in the world, but you have to be able to transmit it. And the transmission is communication. Today, if you want to succeed as an entrepreneur, you also have to be a storyteller. Of course, it is no use being a good storyteller if your product or idea is rubbish. But it is not enough to create a great product; you also have to work out how to let people know about it.” - Warren Buffet (meme)
“Got a 2.4 GPA my first semester in college. Thought maybe I wasn’t cut out for engineering. Today I’ve landed two spacecraft on Mars, and am now designing one for the Moon. STEM is hard for everyone. Grades ultimately aren’t what matter. Curiosity and perseverance matter.” - Ben Cichy (twitter) (meme)
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not. Nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” - Calvin Coolidge (meme)
“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.” - Albert Einstein (meme)
"Your grades don't define your abilities. Your degrees aren't as valuable as your skills. Don't confuse education with intelligence." - Richard Feynman (meme)
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.” - Henry Ford
“In the sciences the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.” - Galileo Galilei
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” - Aldous Huxley
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.” - Isaac Newton (meme)
“Concepts and, therefore, language are primarily a tool of cognition — not of communication, as is usually assumed. Communication is merely the consequence, not the cause nor the primary purpose of concept-formation — a crucial consequence, of invaluable importance to men, but still only a consequence. Cognition precedes communication; the necessary precondition of communication is that one have something to communicate.” - Ayn Rand (meme)
“Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.” - Ayn Rand (meme)
“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” - John D. Rockefeller (meme)