Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they’re all designed to benefit the pupil—not the world - "Ishmael
Daniel QuinnYou’re captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live.
Daniel QuinnWhat's normal is for things to work. What's not normal is for things to fail.
Daniel QuinnYou wouldn't know from experience that small children are the most powerful learning engines in the known universe.
Daniel QuinnSimple things are almost always the hardest to explain, Julie. Showing someone how to tie a shoelace is easy. Explaining it is almost impossible.
Daniel QuinnNo invention ever comes into being fully developed in a single step, from nothing.
Ten thousand inventions had to be in place before Edison could invent the electric light-bulb.
The rules that govern competition between species are (and must be) very different from the rules that govern competition within species.
Daniel QuinnThinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no way to become curious about something that doesn't puzzle you. If a thing falls outside the range of people's curiosity, then they simply cannot
make inquiries about it. It constitutes a blind spot — a spot of blindness that you can't even know is there until someone draws your attention to it.
The community of life that we see here at any given time isn't just a random collection. It's a collection of successes. It's the remainder that is left over when the failures have disappeared.
Daniel QuinnHow easy it is first to leap to a false conclusion about someone and then to view everything he does in light of that conclusion.
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