Relativizing Thinking Quotes & Sayings

I really detest those people who like to draw practical conclusions from scholarly truths, who 'apply learning to real life', like engineers who turn to propositions of chemistry into insecticides for bedbugs. It translates, in Goethe's words, as: 'life is grey, but the golden tree of theory is always green'. — Antal Szerb

Man is most free when his tools are proportionate to his needs. — Soetsu Yanagi

I've got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it. — Groucho Marx

The negro has suffered far more from the commission of this crime against the women of his race by white men than the white race has ever suffered through his crimes. — Ida B. Wells

Leaders do not avoid, repress, or deny conflict, but rather see it as an opportunity — Warren G. Bennis

I'm concerned about getting Iraq on its feet. — Douglas Feith