64 quotes found
“Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.”
“People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.”
“Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”
“If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, ...”
“Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.”
“The Seeking of the Master. Musa Najib was asked why he charged a fee from those who came to his sessions; and why he often did not even address his audience. He said: 'I charge for this object less...”
“You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.”
“I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.You ask me what to do about them.It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.Face that one first.”
“If you want to strengthen an enemy and make him exult - hate him.”
“When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.”
“Who is the wrong person to criticise?You”
“Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.”
“To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with t...”
“Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.”
“Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.”
“What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.”
“Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?”
“People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.”
“Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.”
“A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.”
