True Wisdom – Quote by Gore Vidal
“True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don’t know quite as well as you know what you do know.”
Gore Vidal
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Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry about Inner Change
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Quote by Gore Vidal on Self-Perception and Life
“It is of no consequence to you what others think of you. What matters is what you think of them. That is how you live your life.”
Gore Vidal
Quote by Gore Vidal about Conspiracies
“I’m not a conspiracy theorist – I’m a conspiracy analyst.”
Gore Vidal
Patience and Success Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Quote by Werner Karl Heisenberg on Modern Physics and Plato
“I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.”
Werner Karl Heisenberg
Quote by Gore Vidal on Corporate Power and Media Control in the USA
“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity – much less dissent.”
Gore Vidal
Paul Feyerabend Quote on the Scientific Worldview
“There is no “scientific worldview” just as there is no uniform enterprise “science” – except in the minds of metaphysicians, school masters, and scientists blinded by the achievements of their own particular niche… There is no objective principle that could direct us away from the supermarket “religion” or the supermarket “art” toward the more modern, and much more expensive supermarket “science.” Besides, the search for such guidance would be in conflict with the idea of individual responsibility which allegedly is an important ingredient of a “rational” or scientific age.”
Paul Feyerabend
Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry on the Freedom of Mind through Flying
“I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Quote by Werner Heisenberg on the Uncertainty Principle and Observation
“…separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.”
Werner Karl Heisenberg