01 October 2016

Week 2016-40

"Without a narrative, life has no meaning. Without meaning, learning has no purpose." (Neil Postman)

"You become responsible forever, for what you have tamed." ( Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern." (William Blake)

"If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone." (Maxwell Maltz)

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince”)

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen." (Elisabeth Kübler-Ross)

"[...] without conscious effort, the brain always tries to close the distance between
observed phenomena and knowledge or wisdom that can help us survive." (Alberto Cairo)

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." (Anatole France)

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand." (Frank Herbert)

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