Doe Quotes - Page 74

Immorality does not consist in being different. It consists in not allowing others to be so.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.

A man's readiness and commitment are not enough if he does not enjoy help from above as well; equally help from above is no benefit to us unless there is also commitment and readiness on our part.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

However, perhaps the main point is that you are under no obligation to analyse variance into its parts if it does not come apart easily, and its unwillingness to do so naturally indicates that one's line of approach is not very fruitful.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.

The surgeon knows all the parts of the brain but he does not know his patient's dreams.

The beauty of evolution is that it does provide an explanation of how you can get complexity out of simplicity. It does it by slow, gradual degree. At no point are you postulating the sudden coming into existence of a complicated being.

We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?

Design does not really interest me

Why does almost every ad agency in the world set the time on a watch at 10:10 before photographing it?

Truth is the pearl without price. One cannot obtain truth by buying it-all you can do is to strive for spiritual truth and when one is ready, it will be given freely. Nor should spiritual truth be sold, lest the seller be injured spiritually. You lose any spiritual contact the moment you commercialize it. Those who have the truth would not be packaging and selling it, so anyone who is selling it, really does not possess it.

The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?

Every action alters the soul of the doer.

Total freedom of expression does not compensate for lack of talent.

Just because you are struggling does NOT mean you are failing. Every great success requires some kind of struggle to get there.

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack.

...Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clear: One does not deal with terrorists; one does not bargain with terrorists; one kills terrorists.

The full meaning of a language is never translatable into another. We may speak several languages but one of them always remains the one in which we live. In order completely to assimilate a language it would be necessary to make the world which it expresses one's own and one never does belong to two worlds at once.

Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

The master said you must write what you see / But what I see does not move me / The master answered Change what you see.

You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.