Here are some of Tim Harding’s favourite quotations:
Aristotle
Rowan Atkinson
Isaac Asimov
Francis Bacon
Edmund Burke
Winston Churchill
- Churchill on private enterprise
- Churchill on free speech
- Churchill on democracy
- Churchill on politicians
- Churchill on appeasers
- Churchill on optimism
Brian Cox
- Brian Cox on instant experts
- Brian Cox on science
- Brian Cox on opinions
- Brian Cox on Apollo 11 moon landing
Richard Dawkins
Daniel Dennett
Albert Einstein
- Einstein’s desk
- Einstein and Chaplin on universality
- Einstein on problems
- Einstein on mistakes
- Einstein on explanations
- Einstein on the tyranny of measurement
- Einstein on insanity
Richard Feynman
Harry Frankfurt
- Harry Frankfurt on honesty and truth
- Frankfurt on recognising truth
- Frankfurt on the incoherence of truth denial
- Harry Frankfurt on economic equality
Ricky Gervaise
- Ricky Gervaise on being offended
- Ricky Gervaise on religion
- Ricky Gervaise on fame and infamy
- Ricky Gervaise on creation
- Ricky Gervaise on free speech
Christopher Hitchens
- Hitchens on a battle of wits
- Hitchens on St. Teresa
- Hitchens on being offended
- Hitchens on offensiveness
- Hitchens on religious instruction
- Hitchens on philosophy and religion
- Hitchens on assertions
- Hitchens on faith
- Hitchens on thinking for yourself
Thomas Hobbes
Paul Keating
- Paul Keating on Geoffrey Tozer
- Paul Keating on Australia’s relationship with the UK
- Paul Keating on Pauline Hanson
- Paul Keating on Australian self-respect
- Paul Keating’s Redfern speech
- Paul Keating on climate change
- Keating on Australia’s regional relationships
Tim Minchin
George Orwell
Jordan Peterson
- Jordan Peterson on identity politics
- Jordan Peterson on universities
- Jordan Peterson on postmodernism
Steven Pinker
Plato
Karl Popper
- Karl Popper on radical political promises
- Karl Popper on tolerance
- Karl Popper on knowledge and ignorance
Bertrand Russell
- Russell on Andrew Jackson
- Russell on gossip
- Russell on wisdom
- Russell on the Celestial Teapot
- Russell on philosophy and knowledge
- Russell on useless knowledge
- Russell on reality
- Russell on doubt
- Russell’s proof that 1+1=2
Carl Sagan
John Searle
Socrates
- Socrates on ignorance
- Socrates on questions and answers
- Socrates on the secret of change
- Socrates on minds
Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Neil deGrasse Tyson on the cherry-picking of science
- Neil deGrasse Tyson on science and truth
- Neil deGrasse Tyson on science and knowledge
- Neil deGrasse Tyson on ancient civilisations
Mark Twain
- Mark Twain on public opinion
- Mark Twain on adventurism
- Mark Twain on education
- Mark Twain on individualism
Amanda Vanstone
- Vanstone on narcissists
- Vanstone on university students
- Vanstone on ‘We need a new hero’
- Vanstone on free speech
- Vanstone on civility
Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Wittgenstein on the limits of language
- Wittgenstein on philosophy
- Wittgenstein’s world
- Wittgenstein’s plaque at Cambridge
Other
- Camille Paglia on patriarchy
- Patricia Cochrane on ‘has beens‘
- Frank Zappa on communism
- Obama’s letter to Trump
- John McCain on loudmouths
- Jeane Kirkpatrick on socialism
- Hayek on equality
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali on cultural inequality
- Justice Beech-Jones on parliamentarians
- David Dunning on the Dunning-Kruger Effect
- Tony Blair on popularity vs capability
- Peter Baldwin on the Regressive Left
- What is a scientific consensus?
- University of Chicago defends academic freedom
- George Washington on preparedness
- Lactantius on God and evil
- Sidney Harris on cynicism
- Obama on education
- John Cleese on science
- To College Students:
- Voltaire on self-delusion
- Leo Tolstoy on preconceptions
- Penn Jillette on science and religion
- Grace Hopper on tunnel vision
- Isaiah Berlin on freedom
- John Kekes on desert
- Brian Schmidt on amateur climate science ‘experts’
- Peter Drucker on meetings
- Edna White on insults
- Eleanor Roosevelt on minds
- Albo on apologies
- John Stuart Mill on Liberty
- John Rawls on Justice
- Brian Cox on Apollo 11 moon landing
- Mhairi Black on weathercocks and signposts
- Jean Sibelius on critics
- Theodore Roosevelt on critics
- Arthur Koestler on genius
- Malcolm Fraser on Aboriginal Reconciliation
- Woody Allen on tradition
- Epicurus on happiness
- Leonard Nimoy on logic and wisdom
- Krugman on power vs truth
- Isaac Newton on seeing further
- Doctor Who on facts
- Sam Harris on Islam vs Christianity
- A. C. Grayling on religious criticism
- George Washington on free speech
- Stephen Fry on being offended
- John Cleese on acting
- Darwin on ignorance and science
- Anonymous on group projects
- Anonymous on middle age
- John Lennon on honesty
- Edmund Burke on inaction
- Confucius on wisdom
- Obama on the Great Barrier Reef
- Truman on opportunities
- Gail Kelly on being positive
- Napoleon Hill on achievements
- Thomas Paine on the renunciation of reason
- Lynne Kelly on the wonders of the real world
- Drange on methodological atheism
- Omission of bound morphemes
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