We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. —Carl Sagan More about this quote Tags: technology knowledge science ignorace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad, but I’ve learned in the past year that things are rarely so simple. The good guys can do some truly awful things, and the bad guys can sometimes surprise the heck out of you. —Karen Marie Moning in Darkfever More about this quote Tags: evil bad good dichotomy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. —Anne Frank More about this quote Tags: happiness sharing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We can have facts without thinking but we cannot have thinking without facts. —John Dewey More about this quote Tags: thinking fact Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future. —Niels Bohr More about this quote Tags: future prediction Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. —Peter Drucker More about this quote Tags: management Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. —Bertrand Russell More about this quote Tags: wonder doubt Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am reminded of the story of the teacher who tears to shreds a map of the world and, thinking it an impossible task, gives it to a recalcitrant student to put together. Within ten minutes the boy is back, the task completed. Astounded, the teacher asks him how he did it. The boy replies: "When I turned the pieces over, I found a torn-up man. I put him together, and when I looked at the other side, the world was whole again." —Soozi Holbeche More about this quote Tags: destruction repairing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands, or our legs, or our eyes, or our arms. We do not know an edible root in the woods. We cannot tell our course by the stars, nor the hour of the day by the sun. It is well if we can swim and skate. We are afraid of a horse, of a cow, of a dog, of a cat, of a spider. Far better was the Roman rule to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. —Ralph Waldo Emerson More about this quote Tags: education Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Tags: love life ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At the end of his life, Ezra Pound observed to a friend: "Nothing really matters, does it?" Today I understand this. At the end, or close to the end, or closer to the end than the beginning, the value of what we once thought mattered is lost to us. Even survival, once so important, money, food, family, country, accomplishment, recognition, fame, even: Pound was right. He once said to Allen Ginsberg: "At seventy I realized that instead of being a lunatic, I was a moron." —Doris Grumbach More about this quote Tags: life survival important Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To get an idea of our fellow countrymen's miseries we have only to look at their pleasures. —George Eliot More about this quote Tags: pleasure misery Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be "uneconomic" you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper. —E. F. Schumacher More about this quote Tags: peace economics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and religion. But it creates a great temptation. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Tags: technology spirituality religion temptation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It is well to remember that by the time-scale of the universe, the shapes of all things and systems are as fugitive and evanescent as those clouds driven before a gale, which coalesce and dissolve as they go. —David Pye More about this quote Tags: reality perception Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email