Nilton Schutz Quotes & Sayings

In saying no one knew about the ideas implicit in the telegraph, I am not quite accurate. Thoreau knew. Or so one may surmise. It is alleged that upon being told that through the telegraph a man in Maine could instantly send a message to a man in Texas, Thoreau asked, "But what do they have to say to each other?" In asking this question, to which no serious interest was paid, Thoreau was directing attention to the psychological and social meaning of the telegraph, and in particular to its capacity to change the character of information
from the personal and regional to the impersonal and global. — Neil Postman

The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one. — Henry David Thoreau

The voice of inner truth says, 'I embrace the unknown because it allows me to see new aspects of myself'. — Deepak Chopra

Language. By this we build pyramids, fight battles, ordain and administer laws, shape and teach religion, and knit man to man, cultivate each other, and ourselves. — John Sterling

Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful. — Jerry Hall

Words would ruin things. They brought logic and reality into the game. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Temerity is not always successful. — Livy

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest — Alfred De Musset

I was afraid that your hot head might dominate your good heart — J.K. Rowling

We build too many walls and not enough bridges." Why — Chris Luke

Such things as smiles can be weapons as well. — Alice Hoffman

Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you — Bill Johnson

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse. — Plutarch

Is the kind of smile she loves best: It's like a sneeze, a reflex, a twitch, helpless and automatic, and it only happens when he looks at her. — Jennifer E. Smith

As the distinguished British philosopher Isaiah Berlin wrote as he reflected on the bitter lessons of the twentieth century, 'Few things have done more harm than the belief on the part of individuals or groups (or tribes or states or nations or churches) that he or she or they are in sole possession of the truth, especially about how to live, what to be and do - that those who differ from them are not merely mistaken, but wicked or mad: and need restraining or suppressing. It is terrible and dangerous arrogance to believe that you alone are right, have a magical eye which sees the truth, and that others cannot be right if they disagree. — Thomas Gilovich