Ryokan Kyoto Quotes & Sayings

understanding they in their turn have played on them. Our soul sometimes takes its own revenge: What we see and hear when agitated by anger we do not see as it is: — Roger Ariew

Meritocracy is a social arrangement like any other: it is a loose set of rules that can be adapted in order to obscure advantages, all the while justifying them on the basis of collective values. pg. 199 — Shamus Rahman Khan

In recent times, more and more human thinking has come to assume that the idea of a universal natural law and the idea of 'God' are pointing to one and the same reality. — Wilhelm Reich

There's a traditional Kenyan prayer: From the cowardice that dares not deal with new truth, from the laziness that is content with half-truth, from the arrogance that thinks it knows all truth, Good Lord, deliver me. — Joni Rodgers

He had taken everything she was, everything she spent every day doing, everything that had helped her survive without him, and he made it all inconsequential. Her whole life felt small and naked. — Jessica Shook

People did not respond to anger. They did not respond to demands. Silence and questions, these were far more effective. — Robert Jordan

It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the fact that he cannot leave each of them a fortune does not really matter so much. — Archibald Rutledge

While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom. — Henry Mintzberg

I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. — Henry David Thoreau

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born. — George R R Martin

Books train your mind to imagination to think big. — Taylor Swift