"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."

“A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.”

“Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.”

“To write a blues song is to regiment riots and pluck gems from graves.”

Source : Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

“You could never teach other people anything that mattered. The important things they had to learn for themselves, almost always by making mistakes, so that the lessons arrived too late to help. Experience was in that sense useless. It was precisely what could not be passed along in a lesson.”

“Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.”

“The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.”

Source : Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.149, Transaction Publishers

“When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.”

“It is a friend's duty that he does not leave his friend in a difficult position but provide intimacy and support to him. In difficulty who leaves is a false and the one not quitting is a true friend.”