Martin Svoboda

“Telling the truth about the past helps cause justice in the present.”

James W. Loewen (1942) American historian

“The only way to have real success in science, the field I'm familiar with, is to describe the evidence very carefully without regard to the way you feel it should be. If you have a theory, you must try to explain what's good and what's bad about it equally. In science, you learn a kind of standard integrity and honesty.”

Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong… I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”

Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist

“Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.”

Kent Beck (1961) software engineer

“Suicidal people have tunnel vision - no other choice seems possible. A counselor’s job is to put windows and doors in that tunnel.”

Diane Ackerman (1948) Author, poet, naturalist

“The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.”

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher

“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is just opinion.”

Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory

“Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.”

Herodotus (-484–-425 BC) ancient Greek historian, often considered as the first historian

“You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the Insignificant in depth.”

Odysseas Elytis (1911–1996) Greek poet and art critic

“It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.”

Maria Callas (1923–1977) American-born Greek operatic soprano

“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”

Aristotle Onassis (1906–1975) Greek shipping magnate

“No one can predict the future exactly, but we know two things: it’s going to be different, and it must be rooted in today’s world.”

Peter Thiel (1967) American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager

“How much of what you know about business is shaped by mistaken reactions to past mistakes?”

Peter Thiel (1967) American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager

“Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

“I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

“If you want to master something, teach it. Teaching is a powerful tool for learning.”

Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist

“Don´t expect to find any success stories in human bodies.”

Grady Louis McMurtry (1918–1985) United States Army officer

“I’m not particularly interested in collecting things, but there’s one sort of running motif in my life: despite my basic indifference, objects just seem to collect around me, of their own volition.”

Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist

“When we live an undisciplined life, we constantly sabotage ourselves.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor