Being at ease with himself put him at ease with the world – John Steinbeck
Epigraph
Contradictory
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.”
– Walt Whitman
It Never Ends
“Education isn’t something you can finish”
– Isaac Asimov
The Wisdom of Solomon
“I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens.”
- Ecclesiastes 1:13
Soma
“People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.”
— Aldous Huxley
Huxley’s words from 1932 are truer now than when he wrote it. His novel Brave New World deserves a re-read.
Curiosity Over Intelligence
”Intellectuals pride themselves on their intelligence but they’d be more intelligent if they prided themselves on their curiosity.” – Gurwinder
Soul Grow
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
Say It Again
Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no one was listening, everything has to be said again.
Wisdom
You can lead a person to wisdom but you can’t make them think.
Follow
“The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can.”
– Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
Follow
“The Road goes ever on and on down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, and I must follow, if I can.”
– Bilbo Baggins, The Hobbit
Risk
“Take the risk or lose the chance.” – Someone