"You must look most intimately and discover for yourself; then it is your own, not somebody elseâ€™s, not something that you have been told, because there is no teacher and no follower."

-- Jiddu Krishnamurti

#Being Yourself Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Perception Quotes

“Research under a paradigm must be a particularly effective way of inducing paradigm change.”
“First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.”
“I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind...”

Source : Leon Battista Alberti, John Richard Spencer (1966). “Leon Battista Alberti O Painting”, p.66, Yale University Press
“I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.”
“I am almost inclined to coin a word and call the appearance fluorescence, from fluor-spar, as the analogous term opalescence is derived from the name of a mineral.”
“Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.”

Source : Bill Johnson (2014). “Experience the Impossible: Simple Ways to Unleash Heaven's Power on Earth”, p.89, Chosen Books
“But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.”

Source : "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2, 2013.
“War is part of our history, but it is not in at all the same sense part of our prehistory. It is one of the innovations that occurred between nine and eleven thousand years ago when the first civilized societies were coming into being. What has been invented can be changed; war is not in our genes.”

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