Brian

“But man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Gentlemen, I am joking, and I know myself that my jokes are not brilliant, but you know one can’t take everything as a joke.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Only the poor man counts his flock.”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic