With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

I would rather have strong enemies than a world of passive individualists. In a world of passive individualists nothing seems worth anything simply because nobody stands for anything. That world has no convictions, no victories, no unions, no heroism, no absolutes, no heartbeat. That world has rigor mortis.

It is not enough to call yourself a 'free thinker' just because you can change your beliefs. A whole mess of people change their beliefs based on what is fashionable rather than what is factual, which, by always following the crowd, would be the complete opposite of the beauty of a free thinker.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

A young man will sometimes have all the conviction in the world, only for it all to witness his love interest sway him.