Margaret Floy Washburn famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

  • The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

  • Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.

  • Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?

  • A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind.

  • Rogue Squadron doesn’t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadron’s mission." "We don’t mind running. Even when we don’t have to.

  • Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

  • The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

  • No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

  • It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.