He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.
—Samuel Johnson
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
—Kahlil Gibran
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
—Frank Herbert
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.
—Nadia Boulanger
The last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances; to choose one's own way.
—Viktor Frankl
I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.
—Veronica Roth in Allegiant
I look at the politics of this country as a game that is played on the people, this illusion of choice. It's interesting that the important things have been reduced in number: oil companies, communications, pharmaceuticals, insurance, banking, accounting, all these firms have been merged and reduced. The choices are very limited. But if you want a bagel, we've got twenty-six flavors. There are four hundred kinds of mustard in this country. These are the illusions of choice. I don't really think choice is here to any substantive degree.
—George Carlin
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
—Peter Ustinov
Probably no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
—Abraham Flexner
I have come gradually to understand that the liberal arts cliché about teaching you how to think is actually shorthand for a much deeper, more serious idea: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about quote the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.
—David Foster Wallace
Resolve and thou art free.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I've learned that it's all about choice. You can choose to turn regrets into lessons that change your future.
—Ali Harris in The First Last Kiss
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
—Sammy Davis, Jr.