"To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong."

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E. O. Wilson

#Philosophical Quotes #Doors Quotes #Inquiry Quotes

“I think the works of W.D. Gann and Robert Prechter have inspired me more than anyone else. It was from their writings that I discovered cycles, patterns, and psychology dominate the market, and that the news breaks with the cycles, not the other way around.”
“Past violence is detrimental to our present action, and it is not in the name of principles that we denounce it, but in the name of efficiency.”
“Choose the words you say to yourself wisely; they are creating your reality.”

Source : Sean Stephenson (2009). “Get Off Your "But": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself”, p.62, John Wiley and Sons
“We must have a clear head and a clear-cut stand to confidently boycott those trains of thoughts that attempt to Westernise China, separate China and bring chaos to China.”
“There is no more compassionate and effective way to help poor people in New York City than to give to Robin Hood.”
“Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.”

Source : "The Tories got it totally wrong on the recession: now they're getting it wrong on the recovery" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2010.
“There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never fail to take a deep interest. The progress of the human mind is never traced with such a lively interest as through the steps by which it perfects a great invention; and there is certainly no invention respecting which this minute information will be more eagerly sought after, than in the case of the steam-engine.”
“The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.”

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