There is no 'way to #peace,' there is only 'peace'

#MahatmaGandhi

If you want to #govern the people, you must place yourself below them. If you want to lead the people, you must learn how to follow them

#LaoTzu

There is no royal road to #learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art

#AnthonyTrollope

What we call #tolerance in this country, and pat ourselves on the back for, is the lamest kind of tolerance

@Gladwell

A #government which does not trust its citizens to be armed is not itself to be trusted

#NiccoloMachiavelli

The heart is like a garden. It can grow #compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

@JackKornfield

Almost every significant #breakthrough in the field of scientific endeavor is first a break with tradition, with old ways of thinking, with old paradigms

#StephenRCovey

Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary #evidence to have been correct

#GeorgeOrwell

_1984_

#Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense

#CarlSagan

Arguments from #authority carry little weight. "Authorities" have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future

#CarlSagan

We shelter an #angel within us. We must be the guardians of that angel

#JeanCocteau

For it can never be that Warre shall preserve life and #Peace destroy it

#ThomasHobbes

People tend to rally around power

#NoamChomsky

There are two ways to be #fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true

#SorenKierkegaard

The first lesson of #economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics

#ThomasSowell

What we look for depends on what we #think. What we think depends on what we perceive

#DavidBohm

When I sing, I think of a clear, open space, and I'm going to play sound in it. It is as if I'm writing on a blank piece of paper. It has to be very quiet for me to produce the sounds I'm thinking of

#JoaoGilberto

If you want to see the result of diversity-focused education, as opposed to competence-based, watch Zhang Yimou's 1994 film: To Live

Few combinations are more poisonous than race and #politics. That combination has torn whole nations apart and led to the slaughters of millions in countries around the world

#ThomasSowell

Genius may have its limitations, but #stupidity is not thus handicapped

#ElbertHubbard