"If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings."

-- Leonardo da Vinci

#Facts Quotes #Authority Quotes #Abandon Quotes

“ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee”

Source : John Donne, “No Man Is An Island”
“Some people won, some people lost [the Grammys] but Taylor Swift gets to wake up as Taylor Swift so she's winning.”
“Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.”

Source : Joan Didion (2009). “The Year of Magical Thinking: The Play”, p.4, Vintage
“I strive for individual pictures that will burn in people's memories.”
“Hey Belieber, never lower your head to anyone who criticizes you, your crown can not drop my princess.”
“I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.”

Source : Stephanie Perkins (2013). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.186, Usborne Publishing Ltd
“A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.”
“In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.”

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