“Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.”

Source: The Alchemist

Miscellaneous http://books.google.com/books?id=cvlOAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22Everyone+sits+in+the+prison+of+his+own+ideas+he+must+burst+it+open+and+that+in+his+youth+and+so+try+to+test+his+ideas+on+reality%22&amp;pg=PA104#v=onepage, Cosmic Religion, p. 104 (1931) <br class="br">1930s

Quoted in Robert Sobel&#x27;s review of Past Imperfect: History According to the Movies edited by Mark C. Carnes. <br class="br">Quoted in Timothy J. Penny, http://www.nationalreview.com/article/207925/facts-are-facts-timothy-j-penny, National Review September 4, 2003. <br class="br">Ellen Hume, Tabloids, Talk Radio and the Future of News, part 4 http://www.ellenhume.com/articles/tabloids4.html ( TOC http://www.ellenhume.com/articles/tabloids_contents.html), 1995 cites this as something Moynihan said to a &quot;1994 electoral opponent on WNBC in New York&quot;. <br class="br">However, proceedings http://web.archive.org/web/20141031220947/http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs/96id_protection.pdf of a Senate Intelligence Committee in 1980 attribute the identical quote to James R. Schlesinger (at p. 110), possibly made during the course of 1973 Congressional testimony. <br class="br">Also see Bernard Baruch, who said &quot;Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.&quot; in the January 6, 1950 issue of the Deming (New Mexico) Headlight <br class="br">See also this Barry Popik blog http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/everyone_is_entitled_to_his_own_opinion_but_not_his_own_facts for some etymological research into this quote and its variants. <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Variant: Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts. <br class="br">Variant: You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts. <br class="br">Variant: You’re entitled to your own opinions. You’re not entitled to your own facts.

Source: The Alchemist

Remark (23 June 1972), as quoted in Transitions to a Heart Centered World : Through the Kundalini Yoga and Meditations of Yogi Bhajan (1988) by Guru Rattana and Ann M. Maxwell, p. 107
Context: Everyone is master of his own destiny. Those who do not know how to be commanded do not know how to command. Temptation is the law of Maya (illusion). One who can withstand it knows the law of life: assess your 1) stamina 2) potential 3) basic flexibility, and know where your emotions are.

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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Context: The way is infinitely long, nothing of it can be subtracted, nothing can be added, and yet everyone applies his own childish yardstick to it. “Certainly, this yard of the way you still have to go, too, and it will be accounted unto you.”