The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Powerful Mind Quotes to Unlock Your Inner Potential - page 128
Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.
Ariel Gore
At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. But as a I get older, life is totally about losing everything.
Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.
Ravi Zacharias
Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?
Carrie Fisher
To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.
It would be frightening to think that in all the Cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equal to itself, that only human life is happening randomly, that only one's destiny lacks meaning.
Mircea Eliade
If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.
Henry George
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.
Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can and may follow from each course. Pick out the course which gives the most promise and go ahead.
Maxwell Maltz
If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
Commonplaces are the tramways of intellectual transportation.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.
