“Courage is allowing that your own view may be but one legitimate one among many, that there are no easy answers, and that being your own self is a more gracious existence than joining a herd.” ExistenceCourageGraceSelf AwarenessSelf KnowledgeHerd MentalityViewpointEasy Answers Author:John McWhorter
“Whenever you see someone reading a Japanese newspaper. You just see some lady just reading a Japanese newspaper. You need to put a crown on her head, you need to... to lick her feet, you need to make her some soup. She is doing something that is a human miracle.” HumourSoupLinguisticsJapanese Writing Book:Language Families of the World Source: Language Families of the World
“The difference between educated people and uneducated people is that educated people have been opened up to the notion that you can disagree without fighting; whereas uneducated people, in conversation, seek to always agree--everybody agrees and agrees and that's considered basic social libation.” ConversationEducated People Author:John McWhorter