Dabrowski Tennis Quotes & Sayings

Unfortunately we find systems of education today that have departed so far from the plain truth that they now teach us to be proud of what we know and ashamed of ignorance. This is doubly corrupt. It is corrupt not only because pride is in itself a mortal sin, but also because to teach pride in knowledge is to put an effective barrier against any advance upon what is already known, since it makes one ashamed to look beyond the bounds imposed by one's ignorance.

To any person prepared to enter with respect into the realm of this great and universal ignorance, the secrets of being will eventually unfold, and they will do so in a measure according to his freedom from natural and indoctrinated shame in his respect of their revelation. — George Spencer-Brown

A debt ... is just an exchange that has not been brought to completion. — David Graeber

What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations. — Emily C.A. Snyder

One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only animal that soils its own nest. Every animal soils its nest with the products of its metabolism if unable to move away. Space technology gives us for the first time the freedom to leave our nest, at least for certain functions, in order not to soil it. — Krafft Arnold Ehricke

How can you have an opinion, indeed a strong opinion, about something you haven't even read? — James W. Thomas

Forget love. Try good manners. — Rebecca Wells

What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all. — Arthur Miller

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew. — Martin Luther

There are certain things that cannot be adequately explained to a virgin either by words or pictures. — Warren Buffett

It will be a gay world. There will be lights everywhere except in the minds of men, and the fall of the last civilization will not be heard above the din. — Herbert Read

He didn't think he was edging into dementia. He suspected he was edging into sanity, the long way around. The hard way. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him. — Keith Miller

But her mind feels feverish as it races through the crowded hallways of the past — Thrity Umrigar

True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of unity, a love of seeing God wearing all the masks, and recognising itself in them all. With this love you can feel the walls of opposition come down naturally in the acknowledgement of deep connection. Not only do the walls of opposition fall, but love is felt for every human being and for life itself. — Adyashanti

My children, who are almost two: watching them develop has made me pay much closer attention to how we become who we are. — Amy Waldman