Sunday, April 28, 2013

Albert Einstein & Others on Ignorance, Truth, Courage, and Love


The most violent element in society is ignorance. 
~ Emma Goldman
 
Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. 
~ Albert Einstein
 
 During times of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary. 
~ George Orwell
  
No people can be both ignorant and free. 
~ Thomas Jefferson
 
One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, 
but by making the darkness conscious. 
~ Carl Jung
 
The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience 
is the most difficult period of one's life. 
~ The Dalai Lama
 
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, 
but I would give my life for the simplicity 
on the other side of complexity. 
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
 
 Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all 
the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. 
~ Rumi
 
  
 

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