Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. – Plato
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Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave. – G. I. Gurdjieff
Theres no question that as science, knowledge and technology advance, that we will attempt to do more significant things. And theres no question that we will always have to temper those things with ethics. – Benjamin Carson
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. Its not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written. – Saul Williams
Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. – Stephanie Mills, ed., In Praise of Nature, 1990