Reason and free inquiry are the only effectural agents against error. | Thomas Jefferson | Inquirers |
Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds | Albert Einstein | Thinkers |
We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It’s overrun with sheep and conformists. | Bill Maher | Thinkers |
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. | Lao Tzu | Knowledgeable |
Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child's relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don't know as much as we think we know. | Criss Jami | Inquirers |
As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him. | Plato | Inquirers |
Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple. | John C. Maxwell | Communicators |
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. | Benjamin Jowett | Inquirers |
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. | Plato | Communicators |
What is now proved was once only imagined. | William Blake | Knowledgeable |
Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. | Einstein | Knowledgeable |
When you know better you do better. | Maya Angelou | Knowledgeable |
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. | Ghandi | Principled |
Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think. | Neil Degrasse Tyson | Thinkers |
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. | Rollo May | Communicators |
If your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer. | Neil Degrasse Tyson | Open-Minded |
Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated | Alan Watts | Principled |
In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. | Stephen Covey | Communicators |
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. | Ernest Holmes | Thinkers |
On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. | Thomas Jefferson | Principled |
Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain. | Eckhart Tolle | Thinkers |
The closest thing to being cared for is to care for someone else. | Carson McCullers | Caring |
The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously; music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz | Balanced |
Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed. | Buddha Shakyamuni | Open-Minded |
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. | Isaac Asimov | Open-Minded |
If I have been able to see further it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. | Isaac Newton | Reflective |
I am driven by two main philosophies; know more about the world today than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. | Neil Degrasse Tyson | Caring and Inquirers |
A mind is a like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open. | Frank Zappa | Open-Minded |
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards | Soren Kierkegaard | Reflective |
Everything in balance, everything in moderation – try not to go over the top in any direction but be free to explore & enjoy. Live heart-fully. | Jay Woodman | Balanced |