 | The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart - Helen Keller |
| The greater our knowledge increases the more
our ignorance unfolds |
| A child educated only at school is an uneducated child - George Santayana |
| The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives - Albert Einstein |
| If you take my advice, you will think little
of Socrates and a great deal more of truth |
| Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand - George Santayana |
| It is with books as with men - a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude - Voltaire |
| A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on - John F. Kennedy |
| All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom - Albert Einstein |
| Things should be made as simple as possible,
but not any simpler |
| A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician - Warren E. Buffett (quoting Samuel Johnston) |
| Beware of the man of one book - Thomas Aquinas |
| In my whole life, I haven't known any wise
person who didn't read all the time |
| When experience is not retained, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it - George Santayana |
| No problem can be solved until it is reduced to
some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific
concrete form is an essential element in thinking |
| Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted - Albert Einstein |
| Forecasts about the future tell you more about the forecaster than they tell you about the future - Warren E. Buffett |
| Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man - Dawn Adams |
| If you are out to describe the truth, leave
elegance to the tailor |
| Speak what you think now, and tomorrow speak
(it) again, though it contradict every thing you said today. You may be
misunderstood, but is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was
misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, . . . and Galileo, and Newton, and
every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh |
| A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought - Warren E. Buffett |
| Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily - George Santayana |
| The first key to wisdom is this-- constant and frequent questioning . . . for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at truth - Peter Abelard |
| The greatest wisdom of all is kindness - Hebrew Proverb |
| The greatest enemy of knowledge is not the ignorance of knowledge, but the illusion of it - Stephen Hawking |
| Knowledge is recognition of something absent;
it is a salutation, not an embrace |
| Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort
when you have forgotten your aim |
| The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas,
but in escaping the old ones which, brought up as most of us have been, ramify
into every corner of our minds |
| The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn - Alvin Toffler |
| To raise new questions, new possibilities,
and to regard old problems from a new angle requires a creative imagination
and marks the real advances in science |
| The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation’s greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us. - John F. Kennedy |
| History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true and never bothered to think about further, were in time proven completely wrong - Philip A. Fisher |
| The conventional view serves to protect us from
the painful job of thinking |
| Most men would rather die than think. Many do - Bertrand Russell |
| Unfortunately, we find systems of education today that have departed so far from the plain truth that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is . . . corrupt not only because pride is in itself a mortal sin but also because [it] is an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the [bonds of ignorance]- John Lilly |
| The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth - John F. Kennedy |
| The universe is made up of stories, not atoms - Muriel Rukeyser |
| We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - Anias Nin |
| Confusion is a word we have invented for an
order which is not understood |
| There are more things in heaven and earth . .
. Than are dreamt of in your philosophy |
| The miracle is that the universe created a
part of itself to study the rest of it, that this part, in studying itself,
finds the rest of the universe in its own natural inner realities |
| As of today I have found no final answers, I
am intent on continuing the search |