You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.

The strongest man in the world is the man who stands alone.

—Thomas H. Huxley

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion… or you shall learn nothing.

—Thomas H. Huxley

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

—Thomas H. Huxley

The great tragedy of Science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

—Thomas H. Huxley

It is much easier to break the rules when one s surrounded by strangers. One does not know any of them, so one cannot really care for their opinion.

—Senator Patrick Leahy

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption.

—Plato

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

—Mark Twain

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

—Mark Twain

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

—Lawana Blackwell