Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Philosophers
Hypatia
A Neoplatonist philosopher and mathematician in late-fourth-century Alexandria. She taught across faiths until murdered by a mob in 415 AD, becoming a lasting symbol of intellectual freedom's value and cost.
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Everything depends on your judgment, and that judgment rests with you.
-- Marcus Aurelius
Behold what is absent as firmly present through the mind.
-- Parmenides
I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
-- Socrates
It is not I who conform to the stars; the stars conform to me.
-- Plotinus
Others are others, I am I — regardless, I walk the path I walk.
-- Kitarō Nishida
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
-- John Locke