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"Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind." Leonardo Da Vinci

"European scholarship regards human civilization as a recent progression starting yesterday with the Fiji islander, and ending today with Rockefeller, conceiving ancient culture as necessarily half savage culture. It is a superstition of modern thought that the march of knowledge has always been linear. Our vision of 'prehistory' is terribly inadequate. We have not yet rid our minds from the hold of a one-and-only God or one-and-only Book, and now a one-and-only Science." Shri Aurobindo Ghosh

"Belief gets in the way of learning." Robert Heinlein

"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do." William Blake

"We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are." The Talmud

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." -Alice In Wonderland

"Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls." Joseph Campbell

"All power is from within, and is therefore under our control." Robert Boillies

"After all, if you're a buddha, you should be able to figure it out for yourself." Philip K. Dick

"Anxiety is a force that can be managed by its creative re-direction. Anxiety is a natural reaction to escalating uncertainty. Uncertainty is one of the few immutable facts of life." Antero Alli

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge." Albert Einstein

You are the magician that makes the grass green." Robert Anton Wilson

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." Confucius

"Be more than food for the moon. Be what you came here for." Kathi Lawder

"After all, if you're a buddha, you should be able to figure it out for yourself." Philip K. Dick

"You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world." George Bernard Shaw

"The day of days, the great day of the feast of life, is that in which the inward eye opens to the Unity in things, to the omnipresence of law; sees that what is, must be, and ought to be, or is the best. This beatitude dips from on high down on us, and we see. It is not in us so much as we are in it." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Think for yourself. Question Authority." Timothy Leary

"What some folks call impossible, is just stuff they haven't seen before." What Dreams May Come

"Perception is real even when it is not reality." Edward deBono

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.'" Isaac Asimov

"An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." Gandhi

the visions we offer our children shape the future. It matters what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps." Carl Sagan

"To sin is to believe in lies and to use these lies against ourselves, from these lies all other sins are born." Don Miguel Ruiz

"I define the power elite as myself and my friends, and that's a winner's script. And the way to accomplish things is with a winner's script. I define myself as a winner and my programs as winnable." Robert Anton Wilson