Education can so easily unseat one’s confidence about the truth of the world, Mal noted privately.

You like to claim that you’re in charge of the world, but it’s as if the world hasn’t noticed and it does whatever it pleases in spite of you. You claim the sky is blue, but almost on a daily basis it betrays you.

Every news source on the internet is tuned to personalise their content, so you never get exposed to anything but what other people click on.

I recommend buying a newspaper. At least then it's not parsed through what data the news source has on you.

But that's no guarantee, newspapers nowadays are typically biased for a general audience instead of giving a personal bias, but they're more or less the closest you can get to news nowadays.

As a general rule; anything that doesn't even know you're looking at it is all you should consider.

Most 'news' won't make history. It's probably better to just pick up a history book; it may be old news, but at least once you learn what happened, its relevancy and decided importance doesn't disappear onto a new topic overnight.

You can’t manipulate people who know how to think for themselves.

Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.

It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance.