Quote by E.F. Schumacher
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and mor

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction. – E.F. Schumacher

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Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees. – E.F. Schumacher

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I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs. – E.F. Schumacher

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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. – George Bernard Shaw

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Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power. – Phillips Brooks

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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. – E.B. White

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Every true genius is bound to be naive. – J.C.F. von Schiller

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