All ideologies end up killing people. If you separate love from non-violence you turn non-violence into an ideology, a gimmick. Structures that are not inhabited by justice and love have no liberating or reconciling force, and are never sources of life.
-- Jean Goss
#GreatSandDunes
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
-- John Muir
You, who are the father of letters...have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant.
-- Socrates (addressing the Egyptian god Thoth)
Better to dare Mighty Things and fail, than to live in a gray twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
-- Saint Augustine
Competence is a state of controlled incompetence.
-- Ronald Epstein
What then is the education to be? ...gymnastic for the body and music for the mind.
-- Plato
Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
-- William Shakespeare (King Lear)
To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.
-- Theodore Levitt
I'd rather answer email on Sunday and be in my pajamas longer on Monday.
-- Nicholas Negroponte
Stop thinking about the technology and start thinking about what people are doing. That's the secret to good design.
-- Donald Norman
When you come right down to it, there are really only four reasons for making IT investments at all: to decide what to do, to document what you did, to persuade someone else to do something, or to create content interesting enough that someone will pay to have access to it. Everything else is mere variation in how we apply emerging technologies toward combinations of these goals.
-- Peter Coffee (eWeek (Feb 2005))
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. [Anti-conservatism counters that:] The law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone; and it cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.
-- Frank Wilhoit
If a thing exists, it exists in some amount. If it exists in some amount, it can be measured.
-- E. L. Thorndike
History is merely a list of surprises. ... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak. Non-Violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win.
-- Cesar Chavez
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #CesarChavez #CivilDisobedience #NonViolence
Be confident, not certain.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
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