Form Quotes - Page 59

Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

Once innocence--an all too-brief state of being, if such a one exists--encounters experience, it is transformed. If that transformation is understood, it becomes knowledge. And if that knowledge is employed, then it becomes wisdom.

For forms of government, let fools contest; Whate'er is best administered, is best.

Games are the most elevated form of investigation.

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information.

How children learn to use diverse sources of efficacy information in developing a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy is a matter of considerable interest

There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied.

Of all forms of deception self-deception is the most deadly, and of all deceived persons the self-deceived are the least likely to discover the fraud.

I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

My desolation does begin to make A better life.

Truth reforms as well as informs.

The eager and often inconsiderate appeals of reformers and revolutionists are indispensable to counterbalance the inertia and fossilism marking so large a part of human institutions.

You do not find knowledge in a dictionary, only information.

Transformation is not automatic. It must be learned; it must be led.

Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

Before you can think out of the box, you have to start with a box

Information is seldom enough to heal a wounded heart.

Don't rebel against the mainstream only to conform to the underground.

And a new philosophy emerged called quantum physics, which suggest that the individual’s function is to inform and be informed. You really exist only when you’re in a field sharing and exchanging information. You create the realities you inhabit.

Everything, living or not, is constituted from elements having a nature that is both physical and nonphysical - that is, capable of combining into mental wholes. So this reductive account can also be described as a form of panpsychism: all the elements of the physical world are also mental.

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to become completely absorbed, then the transformation will occur.

We should not confuse information with knowledge.