#tell

The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change. ↗

— Edward Levi

#appears #artificial #attempt #cause #change

Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader. ↗

— Geoff Ryman

#freedom #freshness #healing #honesty #literature

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them. ↗

— Bruce Schneier

#boxes #computers #magical #people #tell

Tell all the truth but tell it slant, Success in circuit lies, Too bright for our infirm delight The truth's superb surprise; As lightning to the children eased With explanation kind, The truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#tact #truth-telling #inspirational

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told. ↗

— Carolyn G. Heilbrun

#storytelling #inspirational

Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#intelligence #love #love is #men #more

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. ↗

— Jacques Maritain

#desire #imagination #instinct #intellect #love

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is intellectual death. ↗

— Confucius

#intellectual #learning #thought #death

I think it is the duty of all human beings, as intelligent and communicative beings, to learn all the ideas thought up before ours and use them as a means to think up new ones. ↗

— Jonathan Culver

#human-beings #humans #ideas #intelligence #learning

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation. ↗

— Walter Cronkite

#ignorance #intelligence #libraries #education