With the people, for the people, by the people — I crack up when I hear it. I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, because that's what really happens. —Fannie Lou Hamer More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Science . . . is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. —Carl Jung More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Because we do not understand the brain very well we are constantly tempted to use the latest technology as a model for trying to understand it. In my childhood we were always assured that the brain was a telephone switchboard. . . . Sherrington, the great British neuroscientist, thought that the brain worked like a telegraph system. Freud often compared the brain to hydraulic and electromagnetic systems. Leibniz compared it to a mill. . . . At present, obviously, the metaphor is the digital computer. —John R. Searle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A visitor to Niels Bohr's country cottage, noticing a horseshoe hanging on the wall, teased the eminent scientist about this ancient superstition. "Can it be that you, of all people, believe it will bring you luck?" "Of course not," replied Bohr, "but I understand it brings you luck whether you believe or not. —Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. —Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every time we drop our bombs in North Vietnam, President Johnson talks eloquently about peace. . . . But one day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. . . . In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends. —Martin Luther King Jr. More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes. —President Ronald Reagan, joking before a radio broadcast, unaware that the microphone was on More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Every victory of man over man has in itself a taste of defeat. . . . There is no essential difference between the various human groups, creatures whose bones and brains and members are the same; and every damage we do there is a form of mutilation, as if the fingers of the left hand were to be cut off by the right. —Freya Stark More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When we grow old, there can only be one regret — not to have given enough of ourselves. —Eleonora Duse More about this quote Tags: enough regret Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve. —Ryszard Kapuściński More about this quote Tags: salvation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt — and who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time? —Bob Moawad More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves, and not to leave it to others to transform themselves . . . This is our responsibility, yours and mine; because, however small may be the world we live in, . . . if we can bring about a radically different point of view in our daily existence, then perhaps we shall affect the world at large. —Jiddu Krishnamurti More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. —Baruch Spinoza More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why the toil, yearning, honesty, aesthetics, exaltation, love, hate, deceit, brilliance, hubris, humility, shame, and stupidity that collectively define our species? —E.O. Wilson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I once wanted to save the world. Now I just want to leave the room with some dignity. —Lotus Weinstock More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email