"The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers."

-- Margaret Mead

#Funny Quotes #Trust Quotes #Children Quotes

“When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from the realities of his business that someone else is running it for him.”
“The point is that we are among those who cannot get their mouths around all the little Yeses that add up to tacit acceptance of a world run by crackpot realists and subject to blind drift. And that, you see, is something to which we do belong; we belong to those who are still capable of personally rejecting. Our minds are not yet captive.”
“Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.”
“My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction - the most important characteristic of high well-being.”
“When you taste things in the right order, sometimes they taste so much different than if you taste them out of order. Not that there's a right order, like by rule, but just like in a thoughtful way that makes sense.”
“The mind can absorb no more than the seat can endure.”
“Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.”
“There is still time to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, if we take strong action now.”

Source : Nicholas Stern (2007). “The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

You may also like:

Bronislaw Malinowski
Anthropologist
Clifford Geertz
Anthropologist
Franz Boas
Anthropologist
George H. Mead
Philosopher
Gregory Bateson
Anthropologist
James A. Baldwin
Novelist
Karl Marx
Philosopher
Mary Catherine Bateson
Writer
Ruth Benedict
Anthropologist