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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

Albert Einstein

“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”

Isaac Newton

“Not all those who wander are lost.”

J. R. R. Tolkien · The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”

Mark Twain · Notebook, 1904

“Do I dare disturb the universe?”

T. S. Eliot · The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 1915

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

Bill Keane · Family Circus, widely attributed

“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”

Vladimir Nabokov · Speak, Memory, 1951

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

Will Durant · The Story of Philosophy, 1926

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

Maya Angelou · I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”

Ernest Hemingway · A Farewell to Arms, 1929

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

Robert Frost

“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

Louisa May Alcott · Little Women, 1868