As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make- believe continues into adulthood.
from It’s Not Easy Being Green by Jim Henson
The learned man understands the ignorant for he was once ignorant himself. The ignorant man does not understand the learned for he has never been learned himself.
No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don’t ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.
There are great ideas undiscovered - breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truths protective layers.
If He put us on center stage, He must have built it all for us.
...it is still remarkably difficult to say categorically whether the earth moves...
We accept the reality of the world with which we're presented. It's as simple as that.
from The Truman Show
It takes only one independent and effective rational mind to change the paradigms of understanding for the rest of humankind.
Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments and they wander off through equation after equation and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
from Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw
If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.
The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded...
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
from Truth-Stages
The key to the Hermetic rebirth resided in attainment of gnosis, spiritual knowledge to free the mind from the bonds of material perception.
With a wave of his hand, he had made the Earth a planet and set it spinning.
from A More Perfect Heaven by Dava Sobel
When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men.