The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend - Aldous Huxley
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity - WB Yeats
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast - Lewis Carroll
People - especially people in positions of power - have invested a tremendous amount of effort and time to get to where they are. They really don't want to hear that we're on the wrong path, that we've got to shift gears and start thinking differently - David Suzuki
Opinions have caused more ills than the plague or earthquakes on this little globe of ours - Voltaire
Open source thinking is sharing and remixing. You've got to set your ideas free, you can't control your content. It is a different mindset: "Ah darn, someone else has got there first" versus "Great, don't have to do that, I can build it on it!" For me, it's been the ability to think out loud with colleagues on ideas and topics, share presentations, etc. - from Momentum by Alison Fine
One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things - Henry Miller http://j.mp/JflPGR
Once I give an opinion, I know immediately that the opposite is also the case. There's nothing I can say that I don't disagree with. That makes it peculiarly difficult to have an opinion about anything - Peter Ackroyd (Sunday Times, 22/03/09)
Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought - Henry David Thoreau
My basic premise is that human beings are amphibious, in the etymological sense of 'two lives'. We have one life in the solid material world that is most perfectly measured by science. Science is the most exquisite tool that we've developed for measuring that hard, physical, material world. Then there is the world of ideas which is inside our head. I would say that both of these worlds are equally real - they're just real in different ways - Alan Moore