Carl Eckart famous quotes

But this same process of the old teaching the young can also cause errors and false conclusions to accumulate with the passage of time. One should therefore study ancient writings, not so much in the hope of finding lost wisdom as in the hope of locating the origin of errors that have been, and still are, accepted truths.
-- Carl Eckart

#Teaching #Writing #Errors

In order to arrive to a more realistic view of society, it must be recognized that there are individual differences that cannot be eradicated by the most rigid curriculum, and that various individuals will choose different educational curricula if allowed to do so.
-- Carl Eckart

#Educational #Views #Order

Each community has a curious and distorted image of itself which is always flattering.
-- Carl Eckart

#Community #Curious #Flattering

If we are to control our own future, it will be necessary, not only to obtain the cooperation of people, but to prepare comprehensive plans for that future.
-- Carl Eckart

#People #Cooperation #Plans

A good plan will therefore include alternative actions, the choice between them being left open until the passage of time indicates which is feasible and which is not.
-- Carl Eckart

#Choices #Alternatives #Action

Most of us are unaware of our deep-seated faith in numbers.
-- Carl Eckart

#Numbers

Hunting is doing business with animals.
-- Carl Eckart

#Animal #Hunting

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.

The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.