"Things you've never thought about are always obvious. It's when you think about them that they become more complex."
Etienne Klein, May 2016 in an interview
"It's not doubt that drives you mad: it's certainty."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"I think doubt is like cholesterol, there's good and bad!"
Etienne Klein
"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."
FR translation: "I don't remember the books I've read, any more than the meals I've eaten; yet they made me what I am."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If your body were entrusted to the first person who came along, you would resent it; but to entrust your thought to the first person you meet, so that, if he insults you, it may be disturbed and confounded, you receive no shame?"
Epictetus
"The Republic is not made to hide the misery of the people, but to proclaim and heal it."
Jean Jaurès, Limoges speech, October 8, 1908
"If you are not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you are determined to learn, no one can stop you."
English translation: "If you're not ready to learn, no one can help you. If you're determined to learn, no one can stop you."
Zig Ziglar