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  • #1
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    “When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
    Eleanor Roosevelt

  • #2
    Warren Buffett
    “Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it’s true. If you hire somebody without [integrity], you really want them to be dumb and lazy.”
    Warren Buffett

  • #3
    C.S. Lewis
    “I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.”
    C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

  • #4
    Carl R. Rogers
    “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
    Carl R. Rogers, On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

  • #5
    Bill Plotkin
    “Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able.”
    Bill Plotkin, Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World

  • #6
    Gene Edward Veith Jr.
    “There is a great superficiality in today's evangelical world. Many Bible-believing Christians share the contemporary case for self-gratification, emotionalism, and anti-intellectualism. Many people who believe in the Bible have never read it.”
    Gene Edward Veith Jr., Loving God with All Your Mind: Thinking as a Christian in the Postmodern World

  • #7
    Philip Plait
    “I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.”
    Phil Plait

  • #8
    Isaac Asimov
    “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #9
    Anthony de Mello
    “Sinners often speak the truth. And saints have led people astray. Examine what is said, not the one who says it.”
    Anthony de Mello, Awakening: Conversations with the Masters



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