Essbase Quotes & Sayings

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him. — John Newton

The most dangerous thing is illusion. — Corban Addison

Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest from it, and most contrary to it, the worst. — J.C. Ryle

It's not that students don't "get" Kafka's humor but that we've taught them to see humor as something you get
the same way we've taught them that a self is something you just have. No wonder they cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke
that the horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle. That our endless and impossible journey toward home is in fact our home. It's hard to put into words up at the blackboard, believe me. You can tell them that maybe it's good they don't "get" Kafka. You can ask them to imagine his art as a kind of door. To envision us readers coming up and pounding on this door, pounding and pounding, not just wanting admission but needing it, we don't know what it is but we can feel it, this total desperation to enter, pounding and pushing and kicking, etc. That, finally, the door opens ... and it opens outward: we've been inside what we wanted all along. Das ist komisch. — David Foster Wallace

Delay is preferable to error. — Thomas Jefferson

People don't make changes because things are wonderful. — Jamaica Kincaid

I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around. — GG Allin

The first internal relation that is essential to a secret society is the reciprocal confidence of its members. — Georg Simmel

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem. — Margaret J. Wheatley

When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I stayed stupid so long. If you only get involved with young people you don't learn anything about the world. — Edmund White

Not every instance requires a response. Truth resides silently in the seat of power. — T.F. Hodge

A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room. — Robert Baden-Powell

I am ashamed to say this, but as a child, neither my parents not my teachers pushed me to read. In fact, I did not read an entire book through until I was a grown man and had learned the awesome power of reading on my own. — Daniel Whyte III

P60- one does not liberate people by alienating them.
P62- consciousness is the constant unveiling of reality. — Paulo Freire

Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars. — Gwendolyn Brooks