“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
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“Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those who are different.”
― Composing a Life
― Composing a Life
“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
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“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
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“Erasmus’s Bible-saturated mind. His was a mind too broad for fundamentalism, which rejects reason, and too honest for intellectualism, which rejects revelation.”
― The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
― The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
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