"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is
a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has
forgotten the gift."
Albert Einstein
"We should take care not to make intellect our god; it has, or
course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
Albert Einstein
"The real danger is not that machines will begin to think like men, but that
men will begin to think like machines."
Sydney J. Harris
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that
you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot,
therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless
and ineffectual."
Frank Herbert
"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed
himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable
without knowing it."
Herodotus
"Natives who beat drums to drive off evil spirits are objects
of scorn to smart Americans who blow horns to break up traffic jams."
Mary Ellen Kelly
"Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed
by those who are dumber."
Plato
"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your
spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise."
David Seabury
"Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really,
it may be said, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead,
and the body is our tomb..."
Socrates
"A mind all logic is like a knife
all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence."
Henrik Tikkanen
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the
world, but to change it."
Colinb Wilson
"Perhaps this is our strange and haunting paradox here in America -- that we
are fixed and certain only when we are in movement."
Thomas Wolfe
