A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

Hate generalizes; love is particular.

Erica Jong

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Jawaharlal Nehru

You can have anything in the world you want if you?ll just help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar

Both the old and new physics were dealing with shadow-symbols, but the new physics was forced to be aware of that fact - forced to be aware that it was dealing with shadows and illusions, not reality.

Ken Wilber

With your talents and industry, with science, and that stedfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thingbut health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of every other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.

Thomas Jefferson

Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

Paul Krugman

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

Bertrand Russell

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.

William Lloyd George

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

Jeff Hawkins

No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer It has chosen.

Minor White

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

Tony Hillerman

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Oliver Goldsmith