knowledge is conventionally viewed as belief plus a bunch of credentials

Reliance on other people's knowledge. . . . buys us all a lot of time. It also buys us, in essence, many billions of prosthetic brains.

conversion stories are one of the classic Western narratives about the self.

In the aftermath of our errors, our first task is always to establish their scope and nature.

Don’t look up to people, don’t be someone’s following.Now a days everything you see is just a lie, Instead be the person you want to follow.

As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson

We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

I can’t even think about what life “could have been” like in Boston, without crying. It’s like deja-vu, I don’t think me and Boston were ever meant to be.

God did not put you on this earth simplest to be any person's mom.

Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.

To the extent a person makes, invents or thinks something that is new to him, he may be said to have performed a creative act.

I'm never impossible. The most I ever allow myself is to be somewhat unlikely.

The Republicans or conservatives always, when it comes to judging, when it comes to legalities, always try to do the right thing even if it harms their interests.