Tom Shakespeare

We do not see things as they are. We see them as we are.

The Talmud

When people are least sure, they are most dogmatic.

J.K.Galbraith

It is a characteristic of human nature to regard anything which is disagreeable as untrue, and then without much difficulty to find arguments against it.

Sigmund Freud

The degree of one’s emotion varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts – the less you know, the hotter you get.

Bertrand Russell

We believe nothing so firmly as what we least know.

Michel de Montaigne

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

H.G.Wells

The tongue forgets more than the ear.

Ugandan proverb

Tact consists in knowing how far to go too far.

Jean Cocteau

Keep a guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlet, lest they betray you in a mooment of unwariness

Anne Bronte

Four shall not enter Paradise: the scoffer, the liar, the hypocrite and the slanderer.

The Talmud