“Willingness to be puzzled is a valuable trait to cultivate, from childhood to advanced inquiry.”
"Debt is a social and ideological construct, not a simple economic fact."
- Noam Chomsky
Awareness
"All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume."
- Noam Chomsky
Awareness
"If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all."
- Noam Chomsky
Belief
"There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, 'That person I see is a savage monster;' instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do."
- Noam Chomsky
Self-awareness
"If we do not believe in freedom of speech for those we despise we do not believe in it at all."
- Noam Chomsky
Courage
"The expert in anything was once a beginner."
- Helen Hayes
Learning
"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."
- Mahatma Gandhi
Learning
"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."
- Dorothy West
Learning
"In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few."
- Vince Gironda
Learning
"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."
- Vincent van Gogh
Learning