Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. —George Gurdjieff More about this quote Tags: freedom self-knowledge slavery self-governance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting. —J. M. Barrie More about this quote Tags: memory past safety Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. —Benjamin Hoff in The Tao of Pooh More about this quote Tags: wonder curiousity gifts Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers. —M. Scott Peck More about this quote Tags: truth discomfort answers searching renewal Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. —Mark Twain More about this quote Tags: politics God school boards Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. —Wernher von Braun More about this quote Tags: uncertainty research exploration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Freedom in not a luxury that we can indulge in when at last we have security and prosperity and enlightenment; it is, rather, antecedent to all of these, for without it we can have neither security nor prosperity nor enlightenment. —Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent More about this quote Tags: freedom security prosperity luxury enlightenment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought. —Henry Steele Commager in Freedom, Loyalty, Dissent More about this quote Tags: danger thought diversity absent-mindedness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. —Howard Zinn More about this quote Tags: politics power television control press domination Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. —Harry Emerson Fosdick More about this quote Tags: power focus discipline dedication Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If something is true, no matter who said it, it is always from the Holy Spirit. —Thomas Aquinas in De Veritate More about this quote Tags: truth source Holy Spirit Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems. —Nick Burd in The Vast Fields of Ordinary More about this quote Tags: problems fathers appendix Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Its hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it. —Nick Burd in The Vast Fields of Ordinary More about this quote Tags: knowledge show Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He that would enjoy life and act with freedom must have the work of the day continually before his eyes. —James Clerk Maxwell More about this quote Tags: freedom enjoyment work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And yet this very singleness of vision and thorough oneness with his age is a mark of the successful man. It is as though Nature needs must make men narrow in order to give them force. —W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk More about this quote Tags: success vision Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email