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If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth, and truth only, prepared to hear all things, and decide upon all things, according to evidence, we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance, than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment. ↗

— Frances Wright

#all things #bring #contented #courage #covetous

The simplest principles become difficult of practice, when habits, formed in error, have been fixed by time, and the simplest truths hard to receive when prejudice has warped the mind. ↗

— Francis Wright

#been #difficult #error #fixed #formed

And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind. ↗

— Francis Wright

#did #fill #good #mere #mind

The hired preachers of all sects, creeds, and religions, never do, and never can, teach any thing but what is in conformity with the opinions of those who pay them. ↗

— Francis Wright

#conformity #creeds #hired #never #opinions

We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore, as it can never present us with indisputable facts, so must it ever be at once a source of error and contention. ↗

— Francis Wright

#bounds #contention #error #ever #facts

My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#far #fear #going #i #my own

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#age #architect #day #every #great

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#body #call #ever #god #great

Fats was starting to think that if you flipped every bit of received wisdom on its head you would have the truth. He wanted to journey through dark labyrinths and wrestle with the strangeness that lurked within; he wanted to crack open piety and expose hypocrisy; he wanted to break taboos and squeeze wisdom from their bloody hearts; he wanted to achieve a state of amoral grace, and be baptised backwards into ignorance and simplicity. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#wisdom #freedom

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#ever #hope #lies #moving #present